Civic Doody

Celebrities make too much money. Subjective, sure, but probably true. Truer still is that very often those fortunes are wasted in inglorious, ill-planned blazes.

But sometimes the millions serve a higher purpose; sixth homes declined in favor of the public that makes a celebrity a celebrity. Yet where are those figures in Star and the National Enquirer?

Screw Birkin bags, time for money that counts: political donations.

Maya Angelou

Occupation: “AUTHOR/POET”

Total of political contributions since 1978: $24,050

Party or PAC: Dem - 98% PAC - 2%

Major donations: Jesse Jackson ($1,000), Carol Moseley Braun ($1,000), William Jefferson Clinton ($1,000), Hillary Clinton ($1,000)

Political language:Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”

Published 1/16/08 by


MollyGood

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