” Seems so contradictory - capitalism supporting a marxist who graduated from Swarthmore and Harvard Law School. “
Levin in power since 1979.
” Ford Motor Co $46,119 $37,250 $8,869
General Motors $38,150 $30,650 $7,500
Cerberus Capital Management $35,650 $25,650 $10,000
Guardsmark LLC $32,500 $32,500 $0
My guess is they are afraid of him. Levin is a big labor union guy.
Labor unions are not funding his campaigns - this link shows the industries funding his campaigns:
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=2012&cid=n00001691&type=I&newmem=N
Here are the top 20 contributors, only 1 is a union, the operating engineers:
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=2012&cid=n00001691&type=I&newmem=N
If big business was “afraid” of him they’d be more interested in seeing him replaced than funding most of his campaigns and “hoping” that he “took it easy on business”.
IMHO, that’s like paying your enemy to “take it easy on you”, which never works well for the payer.
IMHO, big business expects and gets what it wants from candidates that it supports. IMHO, I’m sure the CEOs of the companies whose employees are his top contributors are quite satisfied with the results they get from his office.