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Needing to spend all day calling donors in order to stay in office sounds a lot like “special interests driving ... what the agenda is” to me.
by sjy 6y ago
Needing to spend all day calling donors in order to stay in office sounds a lot like “special interests driving ... what the agenda is” to me.
- exclusiv 6y agoPrecisely. Big donors provide money to get a return. In fact, its one of the best investments you can make. "Corporations Lobbying Government Reap 76,000% Return On Investment. Between 2007 and 2012, 200 of America’s most politically active corporations spent a combined $5.8 billion on federal lobbying and campaign contributions." [1] "How The Fortune 100 Turned $2 Billion in Lobbying Spend Into $400 Billion of Taxpayer Cash" [2] [1] https://www.mintpressnews.com/corporations-lobbying-government-reap-76000-return-on-investment/203447/ https://www.mintpressnews.com/corporations-lobbying-governme... [2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2019/05/14/how-the-fortune-100-turned-2-billion-in-lobbying-spend-into-400-billion-of-taxpayer-cash/#147e9ef454ff https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2019/05/14/how...