Anyone concerned that only millionaires can hold Office in the U.S.?
Anyone???
When was the last non-millionaire to run for office?
Can someone show me where in the Constitution that says being rich is the primary requirement to run for office?
This race below is an example of one millioniare out to replace another.
If there wasn't a millionaire to step up to the plate Lieberman would still be unchallenged.
7-29-2006 Struggling Lieberman faces political abyss
Once, Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut seemed on the brink of the vice presidency, a principled moderate in a party that didn't always warm to them. Now, hewing to his support for the war in Iraq, he confronts a political abyss, abandoned by all groups but the poorer, older and less educated Democrats in his state.
"The last three times I voted for him, but I will never vote for him again," Cheryl Curtiss of West Hartford, Conn., said recently of Lieberman as she waited for primary challenger Ned Lamont to speak at a campaign fundraiser.
"The war is the big piece," said Curtiss, 52. "I don't think it can be minimized. All of our tax dollars are going there. It's killing Americans. It's killing Iraqis. We went there on lies."
Like other Democrats, Lieberman voted to authorize the war in Iraq. Unlike others, he got a nationally televised kiss on the cheek from President Bush after the 2005 State of the Union address.
Two years later, his support for the war guaranteed a challenge.
Several names circulated before the emergence of Lamont, a millionaire businessman whose political experience is limited to local office in Greenwich, Conn.
Lamont quickly signed up top campaign aides with long experience in statewide grass-roots politics and liberal alliances, and gradually began tapping into the anger that had built up.
"Finally, a senator who will stand up to George Bush," promises his campaign Web site.
Anyone???
When was the last non-millionaire to run for office?
Can someone show me where in the Constitution that says being rich is the primary requirement to run for office?
This race below is an example of one millioniare out to replace another.
If there wasn't a millionaire to step up to the plate Lieberman would still be unchallenged.
7-29-2006 Struggling Lieberman faces political abyss
Once, Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut seemed on the brink of the vice presidency, a principled moderate in a party that didn't always warm to them. Now, hewing to his support for the war in Iraq, he confronts a political abyss, abandoned by all groups but the poorer, older and less educated Democrats in his state.
"The last three times I voted for him, but I will never vote for him again," Cheryl Curtiss of West Hartford, Conn., said recently of Lieberman as she waited for primary challenger Ned Lamont to speak at a campaign fundraiser.
"The war is the big piece," said Curtiss, 52. "I don't think it can be minimized. All of our tax dollars are going there. It's killing Americans. It's killing Iraqis. We went there on lies."
Like other Democrats, Lieberman voted to authorize the war in Iraq. Unlike others, he got a nationally televised kiss on the cheek from President Bush after the 2005 State of the Union address.
Two years later, his support for the war guaranteed a challenge.
Several names circulated before the emergence of Lamont, a millionaire businessman whose political experience is limited to local office in Greenwich, Conn.
Lamont quickly signed up top campaign aides with long experience in statewide grass-roots politics and liberal alliances, and gradually began tapping into the anger that had built up.
"Finally, a senator who will stand up to George Bush," promises his campaign Web site.
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