>By the middle 1950s, an entirely new kind of political type, unknown in the East, had thus emerged--the professional image makers.
>....They were campaign managers who provided a complete valet service for candidates or causes--speech writers, strategists, money-raising specialists, media buyers. Of these, the reverend elders were a mom-and-pop team named Whitaker and Baker, who had invented the profession in the 1930s....and, by the time I first met them in 1955, become to California what the Cook County machine was to Illinois politics.
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>Politicians, pollsters, advisers usually wriggle in embarrassment when you mention money and ask what they pay or get paid. Not Whitaker. He had spent, he told me, twenty-five million dollars of Charlie Blythe's money on twenty-five campaigns over the past ten years and won every one of them; Bythe was the head of Blythe and Company, then San Fransisco's leading investment bank....And television was coming in, which would cost even more.
White, Theodore H. America in Search of Itself: The Making of the President 1956-1980, 2nd edition, Eaton Press, pp. 67-68
So, please adjust twenty-five million of pre-television dollars to today's equivalent, then add a TV budget!
California political campaigns, flat out paid for by Goldman Sachs Blythe and Company.
For nothing but the sheer love of politics, no doubt./s
Please tell me again that Citizens United is responsible for money in politics. (Citizens did wreak a heinous change, but not as to money in politics. It is the "corporations are people" case.)
-in 400 years the wilderness & it’s animals are gonna be like a dirty secret & conspiracy about the government that they’ve been hiding
You heard it here first.
Also i don’t actually know if thats the thing with trees. I’m not super into that stuff. I just thought of it. I’m not trying to be political thats just smt i thought of like i said
As a person who has had to sit for an Insurance License and a Mortgage License, who married a Board Certified Athletic Trainer, Personal Trainer and Massage Therapist I cannot image a reality where a person responsible for running a public office is not required to study for a basic aptitude test on law, economy, geography, history and public policy. Run a large machine - certificate. Work in financial services - certificate. Work with the body - certificate. Plan public resources . . . no certificate needed? It does not make rational sense!
edit: goodnight sweet arguers. Although no person changed my view on this, I do understand why some people are opposed and I learned supreme court justices do not need a law degree! : ) The argument it cannot be fair or that it may be oppressive is the best one out there, but I am a believer those challenges can be overcome with the right institutions. Feel free to keep em' coming. I will check this in the morning.
