Before the next session of Congress even has a chance to begin, these members of Congress, and many others, are already preparing to take time away from their work on the nation’s business in order to get money from corporations and meet with lobbyists.
Greg Walden doesn’t appear to spend much time working for constituents back in Oregon, but he seems to have plenty of time for people from the corporate world who are ready to hand him money.
An invitation sent out by the Mike Rogers re-election campaign asks individuals attending his breakfast to come with at between 500 and 1,000 dollars to give to Rogers. Political Action Committees seeking some attention from Rogers are being charged between 1,000 and 2,000 dollars.
What is the Stanton Park Group? It could be a bunch of hippies who came out of a great music scene in Denver and have taken the country by storm with their powerful new blend of acoustic guitar and xylophone. It could be the dentists’ office around the corner from that marble slab ice cream [...]
What on earth did the people meeting with Nathan Deal at the lobbying offices of the Stanton Park Group want to buy with the money they brought him?
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