This is exactly what happens with one exception, these groups don't have to lobby. The politicians know full well that many of the highest paid people in their

This is exactly what happens with one exception, these groups don't have to lobby. The politicians know full well that many of the highest paid people in their respective districts are employees in tech. This is true across most of the US. No one, and I mean no one, is interested in becoming a new rust belt city. So politicians act to keep the money flowing and the tax coffers full so that they can then dole out projects. The doling out of projects is a necessary, some would even say foundational, basis of whatever corrupt extraction is able to be carried out.