~ The Law States Who Can Donate Campaign Money ~ Had Enough!

 

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Dear Minnesota Republican Incumbent:
Please review the policy and the law for drumming up campaign dollars. You have, possibly unknowingly, received donor money that belongs to Guest Workers. This from the first time you sought campaign money from Minnesota companies, but now you are putting the touch on the companies again.

Because you are a seasoned incumbent, you and your staff should've known better. I sure hope that the Democratic Party and other opponents are thoroughly schooled in campaign law's. The donations from the Guest Workers are not peanut sized sums. They would help feed a Minnesota family, pay a utility bill and just maybe pay a health insurance premium.

Your group stands on a knee jerk platform of anti-immigration, along with a list of "Anti-" mainstream initiatives. Yet it's O.K. to accept money from an immigrant employee who holds a work visa, who by the very nature of their status felt compelled to give large sums when their U.S. corporate employer asked.

If this is an isolated incident and an accident, then I am confident that you will return the money. You may want to talk with your campaign staff, however. Maybe interview and hire individuals who actually know and follow the law.

I could lay the sole blame at the feet of the companies, but then again, it is the companies that need elected leaders to help them stay honest with sound - strong policies and laws. It was the elected leaders who had the power to enforce laws that protected the diverse masses. So, it would be an elected official who is expected to follow the written rules, first.

I wonder about the deep impact this sort of activity has on front line workers, the ones just barely making it. For the most part I truly hope that you will look past the bubble you have been living in and just maybe, maybe, you will have an epiphany and begin realizing what your political presence has done to this amazing state of socially conscientious citizens.


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