Perhaps the health-care bill would have been better with more Republican contributions, perhaps not.
(Doubtlessly, control of the White House and the Congress has also been a big magnet for Republican contributions).
Mr. Eberle, who once worked for Lockheed Martin and says he prefers to keep his current employer unidentified, said that he was not bankrolled by any backers and that he and his wife had made few Republican contributions.
And he should spend some time in honest reflection of Republican contributions to the gridlock threatening this storied institution before he claims that, quote, 'there is no real problem here,'" Reid said at the time.
In his keynote address at the Republican National Convention Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) rallied GOP voters to "fight for freedom" by celebrating Republicans' contributions to civil rights advancements throughout history.
Mr. Silvester, 38, has admitted to collecting cash and Republican campaign contributions, and even negotiating future jobs for himself and others in his office, in return for placing millions with equity funds run by investment firms.
Of the total of $2.5 million raised at the two events today, the White House said, $500,000 was in unlimited soft-money donations to the state Republican parties, contributions that are restricted by the new law.
In fact, Democrats have been slightly more reliant than Republicans on contributions from the very wealthy since at least 1990, somewhat contradicting the proletarian image that the party likes to adopt.
Coelho's Democrats soon achieved a rough parity with Republicans in contributions from corporate and Wall Street campaign coffers, but the deal proved a Faustian bargain as Democrats become financially dependent on big corporations and the Street.
He hasn't a clue about Republicans' historic contributions to science-driven environmental policy: the incontestable environmental improvements in the restored lakes and rivers, the acid rain controls, the reduction of key air pollutants by 70, 80 and 90%, and the sharp decline in pollution from automobiles even as their numbers more than doubled".
