If a company, person, or other type of "special interest" can spend, for
example, $40 or $50 grand on a lobbiest and another say $50 or $100k on
various congressional campaign contributions and later make millions from
legislation or rule-making that was influenced, well, that is just the
American way. The Supreme Court said so in the Citizens United vs Federal
Election Commission case of 2010.


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There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat,
plausible, and wrong." (H L Mencken)

Larry Wasserman - Baltimore Maryland - lwasserm(a)sdf. lonestar. org