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09-15-2008, 07:53 PM
According to OpenSecrets.org (http://www.opensecrets.org/), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – two big reasons we may head in to a financial crisis – gave $4.8 million to lawmakers - 57% to Democrats between - 1989 and 2008.
Chris Dodd (D-CT) was the biggest pig at the trough, taking in $165,400.
His second-in-pork was Illinois Junior Senator Barack Obama (D), who raked in $126,349 -- nearly 6 times what his opponent, John McCain (R-AZ) took from Fannie and Freddie.
It took McCain all 20 years to take in $21,550 in pork from F+F; an average of $1,078/yr.
Barack Obama swallowed up $126,349 in one fifth the time, for an average payout from F+F of $31,587/yr.
So while American families have been struggling with their mortgages and face catastrophic economic hardship in no small part because of F+F's malfeasance, Barack Obama has been taking F+F's money to stuff his coffers.
Barack Obama: pork you can believe in.
Source: http://www.examiner.com/x-847-Conservative-Politics-Examiner~y2008m9d15-Who-Were-Fannies--Freddies-Top-Two-Congressional-GoTo-Guys
Chris Dodd (D-CT) was the biggest pig at the trough, taking in $165,400.
His second-in-pork was Illinois Junior Senator Barack Obama (D), who raked in $126,349 -- nearly 6 times what his opponent, John McCain (R-AZ) took from Fannie and Freddie.
It took McCain all 20 years to take in $21,550 in pork from F+F; an average of $1,078/yr.
Barack Obama swallowed up $126,349 in one fifth the time, for an average payout from F+F of $31,587/yr.
So while American families have been struggling with their mortgages and face catastrophic economic hardship in no small part because of F+F's malfeasance, Barack Obama has been taking F+F's money to stuff his coffers.
Barack Obama: pork you can believe in.
Source: http://www.examiner.com/x-847-Conservative-Politics-Examiner~y2008m9d15-Who-Were-Fannies--Freddies-Top-Two-Congressional-GoTo-Guys