Looming Deadline by Sara Armstrong

Catherine, Tomorrow is an important fundraising deadline for us – and it comes at a critical time. As you know, the Internal Revenue Service has admitted to targeting and harassing conservative nonprofit groups. To make matters worse, the same people who oversaw this scandal will be in charge of implementing Obamacare. Democrats hope Republicans will let this slide. But we can’t do that. Americans deserve accountability from their government and the transparency President Obama promised them on the campaign trail. If the IRS played politics with nonprofit groups, how can we trust they won’t play politics with our health care? As implementation of President Obama’s disastrous health care law commences,  we know that putting the people who led the IRS scandal in charge is a recipe for disaster, and this is why we need your help. Help us meet our monthly fundraising goals. Contribute $25, $50, $100, or whatever you can today to help us keep this Administration accountable. Thanks, Sara Armstrong RNC Chief Operating Officer

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You can support PBS for a quarter for less than the cost of a single military aircraft. Let's see, we dropped one on a local city about 15 months ago, they grounded half a fleet due to technical issues for a few months recently. Congress was recently trying to force the army to accept new tanks that the army says are obsolete for the job at a price that is obscene.

In the 1850s Abraham Lincoln, I believe, was given a total of $100 to campaign with. He spent a fraction of that total. In 2012, there was so much money flying around no one knew where it was coming from and who was saying what.

So instead of sticking your hand out and begging for loose change, let's address the serious issue of campaign finance. QUALITY over QUANTITY! I do not see why we cannot put a limit of up to $1 million on each campaign (or whatever is reasonable given the price of a television commercial) thus forcing candidates to think wisely about how they'll spend it, rather than flooding the airwaves with pointless babble and misinformation.

Let's go back to PBS. Do we really need 15 Gubernatorial debates in VA this year? Why not have the 5 McAuliffe proposes, which is reasonable since there are roughly 5 regions in VA, and air them ALL on PBS. Wouldn't this be the reasonable use of public television?

Are we as citizens better off when candidates spend more money? I do not receive anything but a headache from the television companies and the airlines. Traffic is a nightmare whenever a politician comes to town. Yes, the police force will get paid for their services, but does it make me safer because of it? Or are we asking already taxed police officers to work additional hours and denying them the rest days that are necessary for them to perform at peak levels during normal times? I'm not sure that I want tired and possibly grumpy police officers protecting me from criminals because they had to work on their day off to protect some politician who makes triple their salary and no potential loss of benefits.