What Am I Missing Here?
There's something that has been bugging me for some time now. As we hear so very frequently, the Conservatives have a huge war chest. So where did they get it? Apparently Mr. H. refuses to reveal his donors. Dion has referred to Harper receiving large donations from right wing groups in the US for his Alliance leadership campaign, donations I assume were not all spent and which are now available to the cons. Presumably there is oil money there as well.
Does this mean then that any Liberal who has money left over from pre-legislation times can continue to use it, throw it into the pot so to speak, and refuse to reveal its source?
Does this mean then that any Liberal who has money left over from pre-legislation times can continue to use it, throw it into the pot so to speak, and refuse to reveal its source?
posted by Susan at 2:59 PM
2 Comments:
Susan,
Don't get lost in the oil money thing; them fellas support both sides.
True, local support companies tend to lean right but they aren't stupid.
Focus on the first item; yankee bucks. You betcherauntfanny thems is the folks what made big, BIG, donations.
If you really want to know:
Elections Canada details contributions, quite nicely.
To answer your question:
2006, CPC: 163416 individual donors, $19,015,336.68
2006, Lib: 39623 individual donors, $11,234,222.60
In other words almost 5 times more donors.
Interesting to note, the 6.5M the Libs got from the convention, no convention and they're down to about 7M over the year.
I think it just comes down to the fact that regular Joe Canuck is more interested in supporting the CPC rather then some special interest group supporting them with "mega-tonnes" of money.
Cheers,
lance
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