they raised $22 million, and they raised all of it from out of state. actually, i should modify that. of the $22 million they raised, they raised $550 in washington state. not $550,000, $550 out of 22 million, which means that pie is not to scale. 10,000 people from across washington state contributed to the yes, contributed to the yes on labelling side. basically, nobody from washington state contributed to the no on labelling side. but the no side had such a huge tide of corporate money behind them, from bayer and dow agra sciences, and dupont, and basically no one was on the company s side in the fight. but those companies put so much money into it that they totally swamped the other side. and the modified food issue
reported that he got involved in one election. as you see there on the label for the soap, dr. bronner took the side on 522, a washington ballot measure where products taken from genetically modified organizations should be labelled as such. they had money on their side, too, including the dr. bronner s mon money, which is just some of the money that flowed in washington. look at how the money breaks down in that race. these numbers are from the seattle times. the side that wants to label genetically labelled stuff raised about $8 million, with about 70% of it raised out of state. sounds like a lot, right? look at the other side, the don t label side. the we don t want to know side,
one of the most interesting thi things that happened in d.c. was this moment, in the big office where the government does its work. is the thousand and one dollar bills that activists threw off the balancony of the senate offs building, and then others just rolled around in the dollar bills like it was snow. that was a protest at the senate. and people involved in throwing the money that day and rolling around in it got arrested. turns out one of the guys arrested there was the sort of activist-in-chief for the tingly soap company, dr. bronners, you know, the doctor that has an excellent sense of humor. josh harkins at mother jones
that kanye did where he said he was the number one rock star in pinpoint what happened. there s about a week until the the world. special election, debate for kanye went crazy. u.s. senate seat in new jersey there was no bit. happened last night. jimmie sitting there listening got kind of heated. to kanye. how did it end? it went on like that for a republican candidate called new york a big black hole for state while. jimmy just smiled. taxpayer s money. kanye very talented guy. what did cory booker tweet i never really focused on kanye, back. cory booker served as that city s mayor. the dude. they grew heated over more than is he as crazy, has he always once. been this crazy. shootings in newark are down he s a different cat. very weird genius creative in his own world kind of guy. he needs somebody around him 27%. critical issues are not solved to get him away from tweets and with like background checks which my point poses. he s getting support from the tv shows. i
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