Saturday, April 12, 2008
Elections - "Street Money"
There are some strange aspects in our election systems...
In the L.A. Times, Peter Nicholas describes this one:
"The dispute centers on the dispensing of 'street money,' a long-standing Philadelphia ritual in which candidates deliver cash to the city's Democratic operatives in return for getting out the vote.
Flush with payments from well-funded campaigns, the ward leaders and Democratic Party bosses typically spread out the cash in the days before the election, handing $10, $20 and $50 bills to the foot soldiers and loyalists who make up the party's workforce.
It is all legal..."
