[lit-ideas] Re: The Bush Button
- From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 00:06:36 -0500
Who are the power brokers?
Check out the largest lobbying firms on K Street
and see who their largest clients are. It's hard
to find a good quick list of biggies. Pharma is
certainly up there at the top, which should please
you.
But there's also our friends at the Selling out to
the Chinese Corporation
Wal-Mart a big giver to 2004 U.S. election
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4363393/
For a look at Indian Casinos, try:
http://www.capitaleye.org/abramoff.asp
or try: Washington on $10 Million A Day : How
Lobbyists Plunder the Nation
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1567511376/002-4994277-5869627?v=glance&n=283155
Washington on $10 Million a Day provides a
detailed account of how U.S. lobbyists receive
millions of dollars from their clients to not just
sway but win the opinions of our nation's
congresspeople. As Silverstein points out, it's
surprisingly easy to do when a lobbying firm has
the big budget of a large corporation or
less-favored nation backing up their efforts.
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