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Legalized Bribery is Our Name
tainting every single person running for office is our game
Joe is Wypoxic
November 20, 2025
I’m not going to get into who’s a liar and who’s not (although we know the answer, don’t we). The part of this story that interested me is this:
“According to documents released by Oversight Republicans last week, Epstein received a campaign solicitation on May 7, 2013, from a fundraising firm touting Jeffries as "one of the rising stars in the New York Congressional delegation" and a "staunch supporter of President Obama."
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The email included the text of a NY1 profile of Jeffries and is signed by Darren Rigger, Lisa Rossi and Walter Swett of Dynamic SRG, which touts itself as a top political fundraising and public affairs firm for progressive candidates and causes in New York City.”
Ok - a 3rd party fundraising firm sent out a mass solicitation that happened to go to Jeffrey Epstein because, in fact, he was obviously a political donor to at least one Democrat in the past and was now on everyone’s mailing list (fyi, it is illegal to use official FEC reporting information to solicit donations from political donors. Guess what? Also, did you know campaigns sell/rent their donor lists to other orgs/campaigns without the approval of the individual donors? BTW, I never did).
Our campaign financing system basically consists of desperately raising money from whoever is willing to give. I can pretty much guarantee that EVERY federal candidate has taken money - much of the time unknowingly - from someone or some organization who can be claimed to have been involved in “[enter really bad thing]” and that can be used by their opponent(s) to attack them. I’m sure if someone had dug into my thousands of donors, that would be the random case.
Let’s be clear: I am NOT defending Epstein (he was evil), I am NOT defending Jeffries (we need a better House Minority Leader), and I’m certainly NOT defending Comer (he is a stone-cold liar). I don’t know the detailed specifics in this instance - only what I read in this article.
What I AM doing is pointing out that every single candidate that raises money in our system of legalized bribery is vulnerable to being accused of guilt by association (in many cases this is true, in most cases it is not).
Public financing of campaigns is perhaps the single biggest factor we need to clean up our system (which means finding a way around the insanely ridiculous view by SCOTUS that money = speech). Until then, candidate beware…
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