So This Is How The Freshmen Congress Men/Women Justify Their Vote

[Me.]

against Move-On! Such principles! I wonder if they feel this way about all their donors? No money bets on that one. And how, I wonder, do they justify their voting against the people who voted them in to stop the war?

“Most Democrats e-mailed for comment did not respond when asked about whether they’d swear off MoveOn’s cash or urge it not to air television ads on their behalf.

But Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), a freshman who received $5,000 from MoveOn, rejected the idea through spokesman C.J. Karamargin.

MoveOn’s members “care deeply about a number of issues that also are important to the congresswoman,” Karamargin said. He presented his boss’s support for the resolution as proof she is not beholden to donors, a tack taken by representatives of other Democrats reached by Politico.

Rep. Tim Mahoney (D-Fla.), a fellow freshman whom MoveOn boasts of helping to the tune of $160,000 and 54,000 phone calls, supported the resolution partly because he thought the ad was a “disservice to our military,” said his spokeswoman, Jessica Santillo.

She said the congressman is “clearly an independent voice for the people of his district and is not influenced by any special interest groups on this or any other issue.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0907/6086.html

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1. Move-On's Point Of View

“They were not doing what they were supposed to,” MoveOn Communications Director Jennifer Lindenauer said of the Democrats boosted by her group who voted for the resolutions. “We elected them to end the war. They didn’t end the war. … They’re wasting their time debating an ad and not doing what the American people want.”

Before it ran the ad, MoveOn posted a poll on its website asking whether it should “support primary challengers against some Democrats who side with the president on Iraq.” But asked if the group intended to either withhold support from — or even target — Democrats who took its help then later condemned its ad, Lindenauer would not be pinned down.

“I can’t say ‘yes,’ we will support this candidate or not,” she said, explaining that the group’s 3.3 million members decide which campaigns to endorse and fund. “MoveOn members work hard to support candidates that are working to end the war. And that’s what we’ll continue to do.”

[damntexdem]

2. When MoveOn asks, vote to not fund these candidates.

And don't support them directly, either.

[BlooInBloo]

3. Where do you fuckwipes think MoveOn's money came from?