Here’s the latest breakdown of the role of money in politics from Maplight.com: It offers data on which company (or organization) spent the most to buy our state legislators:
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Seems like the unions are outspending the corporations big time. So much for the United decision.
Does that include the cost of television ads and billboards that groups and individuals pay for outside the usual campaign donations? If not, is there a way to track that?
waaahhhh those damn unions at it again wahhhhh need to remove their collective bargaining rights wahhhhh need to give money to the poor CEOs instead boohoo
Both the CEOs and the unions are parasites and need to be cut to size.
At all levels of government, if the government had less ability to help/hurt these groups through legislation then the donations and influence would go away.
Even with out the direct money, these groups exert influence and use it because they have something they can get from the politicians.
Let’s not get money out of politics, lets get politics out of our economy. We need honest and transparent government with good public oversight.
I don’t know how we’ll get there, but our system is broken and needs to be fixed. paul