'Specter For The Cure' Cancer Website, Really Political Fundraising Tool

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: TPM

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA)--two time survivor of Hodgkins disease--is no stranger to cancer, cancer awareness, and cancer research funding. But he's using his hard earned credibility as a national spokesperson on the issue to fight the disease in a roundabout way.

He's touting--and raising money from--a website called specterforthecure.com, which he describes as "a bold new initiative to reform our government's medical research efforts, cut red tape and unstrangle the hope for accelerated cures."

But the money he's raising isn't funding research grants, or advocacy, or treatment for patients who can't afford it. It's funding the Senate re-election campaign of one Arlen Specter.

He will be running for in Pennsylvania as a Democrat in 2010 in what could be a fraught and dramatic campaign, and if he's primaried, he may need buckets full of money to prevail. This is one...creative...method of raising that money.

Read more: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/05/specter-for-the-cure-cancer-website-really-political-fundraising-tool.php?ref=fp1

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[mikelgb]

1. yeah, all the corrupt shit Arlen has been up to is suddenly going to 'matter'

[STOP_BS]

2. SPECTER IS NOT A DEMOCRAT... HE JUST WANT TO STAY IN POWER

Be careful friends THIS OLD SCAM IS NOT A PURE DEM, HE JUST IS PLAYING US.

THIS OLD CREEPY HAS 30 YEARS OF BEING A REPUB.

[T Wolf]

3. Certainly there is a talented DUer who can "improve" this website so that it functions better.

Along the same topic line - my take (and hope) is that Spectre is having a "meet-his-maker" deathbed conversion in a lame attempt to get himself into heaven (though Jews do not believe in a heaven).

In his sick little mind, he may actually think that he is saving his soul by changing his official affiliation, even though his views (and votes) will not change.

I wish him a swift trip to his final destination.

[newscott]

4. I'm willing to bet that most politician's "charities"

are nothing of the sort or at the very least serve as convenient conduits for the usual.

Kind of like how most elite athletes take performance enhancers.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. How nice that Spectre had all that insurance and money thru 2 battles with cancer

and chose to return to a stressful Congressional job.

Really unfortunatel that my Mom's job and insurance was so bad when she died from
her cancer.

Maybe Spectre can "empathize" with the less insured.

[No Elephants]

6. Let's hope Sestak or someone else PRIMARIES the turd in our punchbowl. Time for

Specter to start spending more time with Andy Card's kids. http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/stephencolbert/a/colbertbush_3.htm