Which members of Congress and congressional candidates have accepted money from Don Blankenship, the CEO of Massey Energy, the coal company whose increasingly unsafe record of mining operations culminated in this week’s Upper Big Branch coal mine methane explosion.
Tracey Mann has received $5,500 from employees of the International Foundation – the only congressional candidate to have received International Foundation money in this campaign cycle.
When Erik Paulsen sent out invitations to tomorrow’s reception, he openly informed the potential guests that they should come bearing gifts of money for him. Apparently, Congressman Paulsen believes that the time has come when the United States of America needs leaders who are in love with money, rather than justice.
The theme of this second luncheon at the Capitol Hill Club was ““Specialty Physicians and Dentists” – and it came just as Republican members of Congress like Mary Bono Mack began a particularly strong push to resist efforts at meaningful health care reform.
Huge numbers of politicians are indebted to a company that makes its profits from the vulnerability of Americans in economic distress. The following are among the biggest recipients of donations from Cash America.
Act Blue has made it possible for grassroots activists to make donations to Carolyn Maloney’s political action committee – Carolyn’s PAC. Carolyn’s PAC, in turn, does give to some Democratic candidates, but also has given to other sorts of recipients. Among them is the New York Life Insurance Company Political Action Committee, to which Carolyn’s PAC has given $5,000.
Congressman Tim Murphy hasn’t written any legislation to help the people of his congressional district deal with the housing crisis, or the skyrocketing costs of health care, or food inflation, or gasoline prices. Not a single one. Murphy did find the time, however, to write 20 different bills to enable his patron corporation – a foreign corporation – to import chemicals without any tariffs, thus increasing the national debt.
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