How the financial manipulators (and others) buy votes in Congress

http://inthesetimes.com/article/20543/corporate-money-citizens-united-corruption?link_id=3&can_id=fe1e1d50f292aa277e9a06a609e90126&source=email-us-trained-warlords-committing-atrocities-in-afghanistan-proof-that-corporate-money-influences-politicians&email_referrer=email_238509&email_subject=us-trained-warlords-committing-atrocities-in-afghanistan-proof-that-corporate-money-influences-politicians

 

“for every $100,000 that Democratic representatives received from finance, the odds they would break with their party’s majority support for the Dodd-Frank legislation increased by 13.9 percent. Democratic representatives who voted in favor of finance often received $200,000–$300,000 from that sector, which raised the odds of switching by 25–40 percent.”

 

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Get Money Out – Maryland (GMOM)

 “We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” – Louis Brandeis