Also, politicians are amazingly cheap. Remember reading that Comcast bought of my local representative for $30k. I'm sure politicians with "aligned views" on

Also, politicians are amazingly cheap. Remember reading that Comcast bought of my local representative for $30k. I'm sure politicians with "aligned views" on the matter are even cheaper. There's only 100 senator and 435 house member. Of those, companies only need to buy a few swing votes. $2MM at 30k a pop is 66 votes. If most republicans are on board anyway, that's all they need.