{"id":198871,"date":"2007-10-03T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/03\/green-party-takes-blackwater-corporate-money\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T05:03:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T10:03:00","slug":"green-party-takes-blackwater-corporate-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/03\/green-party-takes-blackwater-corporate-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Party Takes Blackwater Corporate Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Prince, owner of the mercenary organization Blackwater Security, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/004363.php\">donated $10,000 in 2006 to corporate stooge, and erstwhile Green Party candidate for Pennsylvania US Senate seat Carl Romanelli<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Romanelli was thankfully unsuccessful, because the petitions collected by a for profit service funded by Republicans and corporations to get his name on the ballot were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/001831.php\">largely fraudulent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking about this today, when I heard a statement on the radio by a Green Party representative saying that they were not &#8220;beholden to corporate money&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the list of donors to the Romanelli campaign, I would argue that they are tied more tightly to corporate money that the Republican party.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/001257.php\">Other donations<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$1,000 from Bill Wichterman, a senior lobbyist at Washington, for such corporate behemoths as Halliburton, Chevron and Unisys, and a former aide to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN).<\/li>\n<li>$1000 each from Steven Taylor and his wife.  Taylor is a major in the <strike>E. Coli outbreak<\/strike> bagged salad industry.  Two of his children also donated $4000 to the Green party, while giving around $180,000. to right wing causes in the past few years.<\/li>\n<li>$5000 from Mark Pasquerilla, self-described &#8220;big Republican&#8221;, and heir to a department store fortune.<\/li>\n<li>$1000 from Gary Andres, a high powered Washington lobbiest, who works for PhRMA, the drug industry PAC, and frequently writes for the reactionary <em>Washington Times<\/em> and <em>National Review.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>$5000 from James Holman, who also contributed over $1 million to California&#8217;s anti-abortion proposition 73.<\/li>\n<li>$5000 from William Grube, a war profiteer in the night vision goggle business.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It appears to me that the Green party is very much the military industrial complex&#8217;s bitch.<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, there was one campaign donation not connected to military-industrial complex interests, $30.00 from Carl Romanelli, the candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Mr. welcome to America Mr. Romanelli<sup>*<\/sup>, where any man can tart themselves up for dirty corporate money.<\/p>\n<p>Friends don&#8217;t let friends support the Green Party.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">News stories collected from <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/\">TPMmuckraker<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> and <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.attytood.com\/\">Attytood<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><sup>*<\/sup>He&#8217;s a native born American&#8230;It&#8217;s an ironic metaphor.<sup>\u2020<\/sup><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup>I know that most of you get this, but the humorless corporate whores that are the Green Party probably won&#8217;t, hence the footnote.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Prince, owner of the mercenary organization Blackwater Security, donated $10,000 in 2006 to corporate stooge, and erstwhile Green Party candidate for Pennsylvania US Senate seat Carl Romanelli. Mr. Romanelli was thankfully unsuccessful, because the petitions collected by a for profit service funded by Republicans and corporations to get his name on the ballot were &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}