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Default Gun lobby always wins

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On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:58:35 -0500, bpuharic wrote:

the US chamber of commerce alone spent over $50M in the last election


How much did the teacher's unions spend? How much by the trial lawyers? The
Teamsters?...


rest of the Mr. Goebbels' rant snipped


There is a website that tracks who gave what. Over the last 15
years ATT was first, some Dem Pac Second and then the SIU (or whatever
the government workers union is). Out of the top 20, 12 were unions and
only 4 were corporations or their PACs. Sorta interesting compared to
what we read, huh?

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"Even I realized that money was to politicians what the ecalyptus tree is to koala bears: food, water, shelter and something to crap on."
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