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ESA stingy with campaign money early

by Justin McElroy on May 27th 2008 9:20AM

You probably remember -- well, that's not true -- there's an off chance you remember that ESA president Mike Gallagher announced that the organization was going to be throwing some coin behind national candidates via a political action committee, with contributions somewhere between $50,000 and $100,000 by year's end. Well, according to GamePolitics, the going has been slow so far.

The site reports that just three candidates have received money from the organization so far to the tune of $4,300 all told. They are:

Rep. Jim Clyburn D-SC, $1,000
Rep. Artur Davis D-AL, $1,000
Rep. Mary Bono Mack R-CA, $2,300

The small start could also be the result of slow fundraising: The PAC has garnered just six donations so far for a total of $27,500. Also of note, as of April 15 the ESA had financially backed no presidential candidates.

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Tags: esa, mike-gallagher, pac

Reader Comments (7)

Am I the only one here disturbed over the fact that companies can pay politicians to look the other way? Seriously.

What the hell is wrong with our world?

As far as I can tell, mostly that. A lot of problems could get solves if our leaders weren't forced to ignore them.

Oh and religion and the PS3. Discuss.

As long as the ESA is spending it's money to keep censorship from destroying mature video games, and not like other lobbying groups (like the **AA), I'm fine with it.

What I'm not fine with is the amount. They might as well have donated nothing, when you consider how little they donated. I'd be willing to bet that this is why companies are pulling out of the ESA left and right.

Hah, i made the same joke the other day in politics class: "Would the head of a political action committee be called a PAC man?" :-)

No wonder most smart companies are leaving ESA, they just wanna pull political levels and look good. What a stupid idea, specialy since they keep targeting video games for what's wrong in society, when the political system is very wrong and incredibly complex to make it work for whoever it wants. And these fund raisers. doesn't the party already get enough money from the goverment?

Money talks, but having individual people support your campaign (through contributions) creates a better grass root support that money can't buy.

This is a perfect example of how the ESA does NOT serve consumer interests. Mary Bono is one of the people who were thanked by name for drafting a shady new IP law with international consquences. In addition to attacking torrent indexing sites, this bill would also make illegal the very site where it was reported: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Proposed_US_ACTA_multi-lateral_intellectual_property_trade_agreement_(2007)

Note that the bill is called "Anti-counterfeiting" but has exactly nothing to do with fighting counterfeiting.

Do not support the ESA. They won the Manhunt case in court but that didn't get the game to us any less censored. They are there to support publisher profits, not the creativity and content of games.

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