Readers of my online oeuvre are acutely aware of the campaign finance operations of David Vitter’s LCRM, or what is also known as the Louisiana Committee for a Republican Majority: they understand how it is a farcical repetition of the corrupt fundraising apparatus with which disgraced former Republican Congressman Tom DeLay purchased seats in the state legislature of Texas; they understand the LCRM’s fundraising structure, particularly how it is bankrolled by a group of 21 people who represent highly localized and extremely limited special interests; they are aware of the tendency of these 21 people to bundle donations into the LCRM with their donations through relatives and through the many LLCs they ostensibly own and operate; and they understand how the LCRM has aired advertisements so scabrous even the candidates this organization supports feel obliged to repudiate them as so much political toxic waste. All this should at this pointe be taken as axiomatic, although it is worth reiterating again and again and again, ad infinitum.
