Did "Walking-Around Money" Help Cap and Trade Vote?

July 16, 2009

From Red County: “In American politics, “walking-around money” has a specialized meaning: it is money given by a party or candidate to campaign workers to pay voters to cast their votes for the candidate. (That’s illegal, but has a long history in elections back to the 1800s). Use it in a sentence: Last month, did Speaker Pelosi and Congressmen Waxman and Clyburn use walking around money to purchase support for their disastrous “Cap & Trade” bill? The Proof …”
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