Lawmakers have started saying it pretty plainly: https://gizmodo.com/1850096865 https://gizmodo.com/1850096865 > “We had every environmental group walking sup

Lawmakers have started saying it pretty plainly: https://gizmodo.com/1850096865 https://gizmodo.com/1850096865 > “We had every environmental group walking supporting this bill,” Fahy told Grist. “What hurt this bill is Big Tech was opposed to it.” > A broad coalition of manufacturers opposed the bill in the spring, and its sponsors had to make significant compromises in order to pass it. “We made a lot of changes to get it over the finish line in the first day or two of June,” Fahy said. Corporations don't vote on legislation! But the legislators are speaking as though they do! This is where all the that money in politics has led us: the lobbyists are a proxy or litmus test for what is going to happen to legislator's campaign funding. Therefore, the lobbyists have to be pleased for legislation to go through. Effectively - corporations get to write legislation.