This is neither unsurprising nor uncommon. Here's how this works: billionaires and large companies pour billions into "think tanks", either directly or indirec

This is neither unsurprising nor uncommon. Here's how this works: billionaires and large companies pour billions into "think tanks", either directly or indirectly. Those think tanks represent a particular set of interests that align with the donors. Part of the job of those think tanks is quite literally to write legislation. There have been cases of certainly state legislation where the legislator introducing the bill has forgotten to take off the think tank's logos. We are in the era of money = political speech thanks almost entirely to 5 justices who voted for the opinion in Citizens United v. FEC [1]. The damage this has done and will continue to do is almost incalculable. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC