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REP. MIKEY ARROYO DECLARATIONS SHOW NO CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS
VERA Files
09/07/2009 | 09:51 AM

Presidential son Juan Miguel Mikey” Arroyo has failed to declare to the Commission on Elections contributions that he said he received when he ran for Congress in 2004 and 2007.

Mikey said on national television Tuesday that campaign contributions and wedding gifts were partly the reason his declared net worth ballooned from P5.7 million in 2001 to P74.4 million in 2004 and then to P99.2 million last year. Mikey wed his second cousin Angela Arroyo Montenegro in 2002.

The numbers say Mikeys net worth grew by more than 1,600 percent in the seven years that he has been a public official. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyos eldest son, a one-time movie actor, became vice governor of Pampanga in 2001, and was elected congressman of the provinces second district in 2004 and 2007.

Siyempre unang una, kinasal tayo. Medyo nagkaroon tayo ng maraming regalo. Tapos pag kampanya, siyempre kahit paano maraming tumutulong sa atin (Of course, first I got married. We received a lot of gifts. Then during campaigns, somehow we get contributions),” Mikey told Solita Monsod and Arnold Clavio, hosts of the morning show Unang Hirit.

Click here and here to view Mikey Arroyo’s Statements of Election Contribution and Expenditures in the 2007 elections. VERA FilesBut his statements of contributions and expenses for the last two congressional elections show zero donations to his campaign, which he reported as having been funded from his own pocket.

Mikey declared campaign expenses of P483,000 in 2004 and P552,876.15 in 2007. His 2007 spending included posters and leaflets, P246,740.10; gas and diesel, P88,332.80; meals, P148,560; rental of building, P40,000; and miscellaneous expenses, specifically financial assistance to indigents, P29,243.25.

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Former Missouri House Speaker Rod Jetton said there was no legislation pushed or thwarted in return for campaign contributions. Jetton testified before a grand jury on Wednesday. KMBC’s Micheal Mahoney reports.

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King Mike Bloomberg and his mini-me need to be drug tested or impeached giving out raises when we are in a recession and New Yorkers are being laid off, fired or asked to take a pay cut.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVBApub6xOc
The YouTube link above is about the Village Voice piece exposing Quinn padding her campaign staff with her City Hall staff…nice to know she gave them raises. Do you think that is incentive to get out there and campaign hard.

Please go down to towards the bottom for important links you read the articles.

Check out the links to Benjamin Lesser’s powerful pieces on city council members including Christine Quinn and Melinda Katz taking large campaign contributions from developers. No wonder city council turns a deaf ear to the people they are supposed to be favoring rather than developers. Our socialite city planner and Mike Bloomberg give their good friends NYU, Cooper Union and Columbia U. priority over the safety and well being of New Yorkers but so do some city council members because they are getting what appears to be kick backs or commission or do you call it a campaign contribution.

The term limits votes are tainted and must be tossed…

How fitting underscores my point about the Bloomberg administration’s reckless tsunami of community crushing development where they did not put safety and infrastructure first – the put the developer first not the people of New York!
http://www.wpix.com/news/wpix-water-main-break-manhattan,0,3050598.story

I am in a rush — go to this YouTube and click on the text portion to find Benjamin Lesser’s articles on city council members including Quinn and their on the take ways with developers.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/07/12/2009-07-12_some_city_politicians_received_big_campaign_donations_and_tried_to_aid_developer.html

Suzannah B. Troy wearing recession bikini top purchased for $5 to protest community crushing development and corruption at city hall including the Christine Quinn slushgate scandal, the fact tax payers are paying a fortune for her white collar crime defense attorney and other top law firms representing her staff members and yesterday in The New York Daily News, Benjamin Lesser’s article on City Pols getting big campaign donations but it is worse than that — you must read it and it ends with what reads like another Christine Quinn scandal.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/07/12/2009-07-12_some_city_politicians_received_big_campaign_donations_and_tried_to_aid_developer.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/05/31/2009-05-31_city_council.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnkhunOHe6g
Gloomy Bloomy News Sub-Zero Trickle Down

http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/elsewhere-penn-obama-and-economy-thompson-running-against-bloomberg

My youtube is and my quote about is City Council going to unvote themselves a raise in this piece.

http://mayorbloombergkingofnewyork.blogspot.com/

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/08/06/2009-08-06_city_council_officials_awarding_big_raises_to_staffers.html

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Sen. Peter Welch talks campaign finance reform less than 24 hours ahead of Town Meeting Day.

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Sen. Peter Welch talks campaign finance reform less than 24 hours ahead of Town Meeting Day.

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For example…If Fred Thompson was to drop out of the running, had raised 10 mil, spent 5mil on campaing signs and buttons. What happens to the left over 5 mil? Is it donated to the national fund to be used by the final party candidate or does Fred get to keep it and "thanks for running".

He can donate it to charity or another candidate. He can also save it for possible future campaign. He cannot use funds for private applications.

Pretty much everything you’e heard about the recent Supreme Court decision from politicians and the news media is a lie. I try at least a little to set the record straight.

Here’s the Supreme Court’s decision: http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/08-205.ZS.html

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In 1996, the gov’t of China gave at least $2 million in donations to Bill Clinton for his re-election campaign. (The money was illegally laundered through straw donors including John Huang, Charlie Trie, Maria Hsia, and James Riady all found guilty in a court of law).

Why would they do this?

To answer your question;

In China’s case, they bought Most Favored Nation status and ICBM technology from Bill Clinton

Bill Moyers Journal takes a hard look at how campaign cash in judicial races may sway America’s courts. The Journal revisits the 1999 FRONTLINE special “Justice for Sale” which reported on the growing concern — even among Supreme Court justices themselves — that campaign contributions may be corrupting the judicial process. Bill Moyers airs Friday nights at 9 pm on PBS. Check your local listings. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02192010/watch3.html

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Could that explain why it was on a best seller list?

It is only on the best seller list because conservative groups and magazines and such ordered them by the truckload.
http://magazine.townhall.com/sarahpalinrogue

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-kelly/get-sarah-palins-new-book_b_148158.html

Her book is clearance priced on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Going-Rogue-American-Sarah-Palin/dp/0061939897