In the interests of accuracy. This from an email I sent friends on 9 Mar. -
Some highlights:
The bill’s author gets large amounts of PAC money from agribusiness $2k from Cargill, $4k General Mills $4.5k Kraft Foods $5k Land O’Lakes, but most from various sugar producers -$28K
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/pacs.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00000615
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/pacs.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00000615§or=A&seclong=Agribusiness&newMem=N
Also from AgriMark $11k but I don’t know what that really is.
http://herndon1.sdrdc.com/cgi-bin/can_give/H0CT
You’ll probably read that her husband works for Monsanto - not really - but he has them for a client. Greenberg is a political scientist/pollster. He is in business with James Carville, among others.
http://www.greenbergresearch.com/index.php?ID=109
Monsanto gives primarily to Republicans.
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/qind/
All 39 co-sponsors are Democrats
Imagine that, all of those behind this totalitarian power grab are democRats... who would have imagined.
The bill’s author gets large amounts of PAC money from agribusiness $2k from Cargill, $4k General Mills $4.5k Kraft Foods $5k Land O’Lakes, but most from various sugar producers -$28K
The congressman author does not write these bills. The companies write them and the congressman just introduces it to congress for passage. Most of the time these dumbos never read the bill, and have no idea what’s in them. for his services the congressman gets large amounts of campaign money for reelection.