photo-fish wrote: Is that because of donations or potential votes?
SEIU President Andy? Probably a combination of loyal voters, an efficient, powerful political machine, a president who is sympathetic to unions, and donations.
In 2010, I saw where one union took on debt trying swing an election to the Dem candidate. I don't remember if they were successful.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Wall Street's outsized political influence is no secret, but some new data shows just how much it's ballooned. According to the Sunlight Foundation, campaign spending by elite donors from the finance, insurance, and real estate sector has jumped 700 percent in the past two decades, far outpacing individual donations from all other industries.
I agree 100 percent.
But the dirty criminal hippies of the Occupy movement won't be the ones to fix it.
Science Chic wrote: We will not get our democracy back until we fix this.
Rather difficult to get back something that you never had to begin with - but I digress.
The only way that this can be fixed is to restore the chains limiting the scope and reach of the general government. Think that Exxon-Mobil, Shell and the folks over at Fannie, Freddie and BoA are going to be able to bribe 50 governments instead of only one? Yeah, me neither.
Now, from my perspective, the donations are little different from the protection money that businesses pay to the local mob - and the industry pays the extorted money for the same reason, it prevents their restaurant from being the one put to the torch when the local mob boss goes looking for more cash for his operations.
