Vote with your political donations 05-05-11

Today’s topic: There’s more than one way to vote with your wallet.

Voting with your wallet doesn’t just mean paying attention to who you are buying from, it also means paying attention to who is receiving your donations. As of this year I will no longer give any money to the National Democratic Party, The Democratic House Campaign Committee, or the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee. Why? Because the money you give to those organizations goes in part to helping reelect such sterling Democrats as:

Senator Ben Nelson – who rather than support his leader and the majority of his party, held the Healthcare Bill hostage until he got a clause inserted that was specific to Nebraska.

The following 15 Democratic congressmen (no women, of course) who just voted for HR3 The No Taxpayer Dollars for Abortion bill  which, among other things, narrows the definition of rape so that statutory rape and rape where the victim is drugged would no longer be defined as rape for the purposes of abortion funding. Here’s a list of those wonderful guys:

Jason Altmire

Dan Boren

Jerry Costello

Mark Critz

Henry Cuellar

Joe Donnelly

Tim Holden

Marcy Kaptur

Dale Kildee

Daniel Lipinski

Jim Matheson

Mike McIntyre

Collin Peterson

Nick Rahall

Mike Ross

Heath Shule

So when the National Dems call for money I tell them very clearly why I will only donate to individual candidates who support my views, and won’t enable them to provide indirect support for people who are disgracing what I believe the party stands for.

And that’s my rant.