Oct 23rd, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Getting Paid
Kate Sheppard takes a look at who’s getting paid in the energy and environment sphere. Oil and gas interests love Republicans (drill, baby, drill) who get 76 percent of their money. Coal likes Republicans, but not quite as much, giving the GOP 70 percent of their cash about even with “general mining interests” who give 69 percent to Republicans. Agriculture tilts Republican, giving them 60 percent of their money. The auto industry is split 50-50 with Carl Levin (D-MI) as the leading individual at $120,999. Then comes “environmental groups and individuals” who have an overwhelmingly pro-Democratic tilt.
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October 23rd, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Fascinating. Whoever would have guessed that?
October 23rd, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Somebody’s got to do something about Big Individual pulling the levers in Washington.
October 23rd, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Thank God we have Kate Sheppard to do this kind of penetrating journalism.
In other news, anti-abortion groups are disproportionately funded by religious conservatives, and gay rights groups by homosexuals.
October 23rd, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Since the environmental policy heyday of the 1970s, environmental groups have been vilified by most Republicans and taken for granted by most Democrats. Once, both major parties vied against one another to do good things in this area. No more.
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