P&M: This is the very first post of "Politics ans Money". I am Timothy V. Gatto. I write for OpEdNews.com and also for my own blog "Liberalpro". Even though I am a "Progressive", this site is non-partisan. Here we do not recognize Republicans, Democrats, Liberals, Conservatives, or any other political label. Here we are devoted to taking Corporate and Special Interests out of the campaign financing loop.

The sad thing in out country is that the people are no longer the ones that finance the politicians that run for office. The political parties are not the ones that finance the majority of money that goes into a political campaign. The majority of money that a politician gets to run his campaign comes from corporations and special interest groups such as the American Medical Association, The American Trial Lawyers Association, and also Unions and other assorted Political Action Committees also known as PAC's. The fact is, Pac's usually make up more than half of a candidates political campaign war chest.

You may be wondering where do we get our data? We get most of the data we will use on this site from The Center for Responsice Politics that run a web site called OpenSecrets.org. This site tells people who gives, and who gets. Most of the donations we will ask for will be for this organization. The only time we will ask for donations, is when we need to get funds for office equipment or for travel. We are a long way from asking for donations.

I am going to keep thjis first posting short and sweet. At this time we will enable comments with no moderation, so we ask that any comments left have no profanity, and that no political comments be left. Remember that we are trying to run a non-partisan website. If anyone is familiar with my politics, you know you can comment on other sites if you want to argue political issues. Here I hope we can together tackle one big problem, corporate and special interest politics. I will try to post daily. If you wish to join this website, please e-mail me at timgatto@hotmail.com.