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Meg Whitman truly believes that California is for sale. She has spent a record-breaking $140 Million of her own money in an attempt to buy the state. But California isn’t just some EBay item Whitman can bid on.
Whitman has run 80,000 TV ads to promote her conservative version of a future for California. That one video above is fighting against the, at least, $60 Million Whitman has spent buying up airtime and producing commercials for herself.
What else has Whitman spent her money on in this race? Here are some recent calculations. On staff and spouse travel, lodging and meals: $2,643,529. Fundraising events: $1,028,538. On campaign consultants: $11,085,653. On print ads: $4,247,724. On polling and survey research: $1,254,627.
In all of this tossing of money around like life is a game of Monopoly, Whitman’s true goal is an attempt to buy democracy. She’s acting on a belief that if she throws enough of her own wealth out to woe voters, she can buy their votes. As if California is up for auction and the deciding factor of who wins is who bids enough.
California is not for sale. Please share this blog and the above video with other Californians who cannot be bought.
‘I support offshore drilling.’ With this position, Carly Fiornia is falling in line with her ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ comrades and continues her work to become the Sarah Palin of California.
In the latest video from Brave New Films, Carly shows us her history of supporting those who want to drill in particularly in the beautiful Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR). She also takes a card from the Koch brothers playbook and thinks we should “have the courage to examine the science behind global warming”.
Enough! Haven’t we learned from the damage in the Gulf? Haven’t we seen enough unbiased documentation on global climate change? Don’t let Sarah, er, we mean, Carly drill on your California coastline!
In these economic times, California needs to focus on the creation of jobs.
Brave New Films has released the latest video in our series on Carly Fiorina, this video focuses on her record as CEO of Hewlett-Packard.
Carly Fiorina likes to tout her business experience from when she was CEO of Hewlett-Parkard, but leaves out the most important part of her track-record. During Fiorina’s tenure, she laid off 30,000 workers and shipped their jobs overseas to India and China.
Listening to the voices of those laid off workers will show you the Real Carly:
“After 21 years and 18 months shy of retirement, I was laid off…I lost about 50% of my retirement nest egg by believing what she was saying.” – Mike Angles, Laid-off Manager – Hewlett Packard
“The layoff was very hard. We’ve gone from two cars in the driveway and all things you would need…and now we are trying to remodify our loan…a matter of fact, now we’re on food stamps.” – Susan Walsh, Laid-offExecutive Assistant – Hewlett Packard.
In these tough economic times, we need to bring jobs to the state, not ship them overseas.
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Using new media to launch video campaigns, we challenge corporate media with the truth and motivate people to take action.
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Americans are tired of unethical politicians. We don’t need another one to get into Congress.
Christine O’Donnell has stolen from citizens even before getting into office. She has used up to $20,000 on rent, bowling and personal meals, and sees nothing wrong with this misuse of campaign funds.
We disagree. And so Brave New Films has called upon David Weiss, the United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, to investigate O’Donnell’s illegal usage of campaign funds and for her submitting of false reports to the Federal Elections Committee.
If we don’t stop corruption before candidates get into Congress, we will never stop corruption within Congress. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government deserves recognition for also being watchdogs for democracy in their work to bring attention to this issue. Americans have had enough of double talking politicians who claim to be “fiscally conservative,” but really are just about what fiscally benefits them and their friends.
There is disturbing evidence that Christine O’Donnell has broken the law, and voters deserve to have this situation investigated.
But in case all of that was not clear enough, News Corp, Fox News’ corporate parent, recently gave $1 million dollars to the Republican Governors Association. One million dollars! That would be the Republican Governors Association’s largest corporate donation this election cycle.
As we at Brave New Films have long documented via our Outfoxed documentary and our Fox Attacks Campaign, Fox News exists to highlight fights and a mob wrestling of conservative voices. This only works when Democrats provide the necessary fodder. They need a Democrat to throw to the lion’s den, to cut off and to disagree with. It is the appearance of Democrats that allows for Fox to keep up the entertainment value of shouting and insulting. If Democrats refuse to appear on Fox, Fox loses its entertainment edge. And by losing its edge, it loses its audience. And by losing its audience, it loses its financial gain.
For too long we have played around. Democrats have argued that Fox News was a legitimate enough of an organization to appear on. They are not. And each time a Democrat appears on a Fox News program, they help provide entertainment value and audience draw. Agreeing to appear on Fox equals agreeing to support their financial gain and thus to support Republican candidates – to the tune of $1 million dollars.
With so much at stake in our country today, we can no longer afford to play such games. We can no longer afford to collude with an overtly conservative medium and financial entity that promotes bigotry, hate and inequality.
The word is out and the message is clear: Any Democrat who appears on Fox is supporting a financial structure that allows for Republican gain. And claiming the cover of “fair and balanced” is now as convincing as claiming that money doesn’t matter in politics. It’s time to draw a line. Fox News is a Republican support machine. They should never be treated as anything but that. And all Democrats must declare that they will no longer fund this right wing operation and that they will refuse to appear on any Fox News program.
Fox News isn’t a news organization. It’s not even just a propaganda machine any longer. It is a funding machine for the right wing, with the express financial focus of electing Republicans to office.
Turn off Fox and refuse to appear on their programs, or you might as well just sign a blank check to any Republican candidate of Fox’s choosing.
Seems like everyone is singing the praises of Natural Gas, our newest greenest most homegrown and secure source of American Energy. NOT! “Clean Natural” Gas is neither. Gas extraction, made possible by hydraulic fracturing (or fracking for short) has to sit right beside Deep Sea Drilling, Mountain Top Removal, and Dirty Tar Sands Oil in the pantheon of insane ways to get our carbon fix.
Did you know that Halliburton (yes that Halliburton) pantented fracking: a process that mixes millions of gallons of precious fresh water with a proprietary cocktail of toxics, injects it through our drinking water table, and into the ground at a pressure that will fracture rock? Did you know that when Dick Cheney (yes that Dick) was the VP he fracked the EPA to make sure that this insanity would be exempted from the Safe Drinking Water Act?
Stand Up, New York!
Fracking has brought the gas rush to New York. Some of the biggest and dirtiest names in Big Oil are coming to frack you. And they will not be gentle with New York’s world class water features.
You can expect the same dirty drilling that has poisoned the water in Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, and Ohio. Who will be at risk? Everyone downstream. Including the drinking water of tens of million in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
If you love NY and NY State as I do (or just love someone who does) then please watch our video, go to http://CleanWaterNotDirtyDrilling.org and DO SOMETHING!!
U.S. taxpayers, terrorized by proclamations that “this sucker [the economy] could go down,” rode to the rescue of Big Gambling (read: derivative-drunk, too-big-to-fail banks) and shelled out trillions of dollars to bail them out. This is after they’d been using our deposits and investments to sit at the roulette table, mind you. But when we asked to see the receipt, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told us what we could do with our request. I’m too polite to paraphrase him, but here’s a hint: it wasn’t something you do at the dinner table.
The irony of having a gun pointed to your head by bankers shouting “gimme all your money” shouldn’t be lost on anyone.
Today, Sanders’ legislative language passed in the Senate. Thanks to his tireless work on this issue, we’ll get a one-time disclosure from the Federal Reserve, and there’s hope that in the conference committee between the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, the one-time bit of sunshine can be strengthened into a recurring audit. This is a great moment for transparency in our country, and a big blow to the arrogant, elitist culture among the big banks and the Federal Reserve. We owe thanks to people across the political divide for this breakthrough, including Sanders and U.S. Reps. Alan Grayson (D-FL) and Ron Paul (R-TX).
What else could we do with $5.5 billion in bonuses Goldman Sachs is giving its employees for the first three months of 2010? You’d think that after ruining our economy AND being indicted for fraud, Goldman would have the sense to give the American public the money to spend ourselves.
Actually, on second thought, they did such a great job tanking our economy, I’m sure they deserve it.
Watch my latest video blog with ideas for what else we could spend that $5.5 billion on.
And check out the Showdown in America, with events planned across the country of ordinary Americans telling the big banks enough is enough!
As part of an online live video chat with Michael Moore to discuss the DVD release of Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore and Robert Greenwald discussed their support of the “Move Your Money” campaign currently championed by Arianna Huffington.
The “Move Your Money” campaign encourages citizens to move their funds away from the “too big to fail” banks, instead placing them with small community banks and credit unions. This movement formed in reaction to large corporate banks using America’s hard-earned money to kill any meaningful financial regulation. Instead of helping to grow the economy, these large banks have been bankrupting the country and taking every day Americans with them. “Move Your Money” seeks to end this practice by informing and encouraging people toward better financial options.
“I encourage people to think about their local credit unions; it’s a very good place to put your money, to have your money (if you have any money). It’s safe and it’s owned by the people whose money is in the credit union. Any time you can get away from the profit motive, all the better.” Michael Moore, Director of Capitalism: a Love Story.
