The right- wing case for campaign finance reform. “State legislators loaded up on pork this session like starving men at a sausage factory,” writes W. Kent Fung in “Taxnews” (Summer), newsletter of National Taxpayers United of Illinois. Despite protests from NTU and other tax-cut advocates, “The politicians chose to listen to their heavy contributors–the connected real estate speculators, construction contractors, education lobbyists, bankers, and bond issuers, who all stood to make millions from this pork.”
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“The gay environment and its politics are very controlled by white, gay men,” black lesbian Renae Ogletree of the Chicago Youth Agency Partnership tells Doug Ireland in the Nation (July 12). “And it would be a compliment to say they’re even mildly interested in issues of concern to black folk. They’re interested in gay marriage–we’re interested in housing and employment. We not only have to fight to be at the table, we have to make sure we get the same damn food, or that they haven’t co-opted one of us, or that they haven’t had the real meeting beforehand.”
Your joke here. Chicago-Kent College of Law professor Lori Andrews in her new book The Clone Age : “Bull sperm sells for $250 per sample; human sperm goes for an average of $50 per sample.”
