Telecom Immunity Flip-Floppers Got More Telecom Money

ya really notes a nice analysis by Maplight.org indicating that those Democratic representatives who changed their vote on telecom immunity between March and June received on average 40% more in contributions from telecom interests than those Democrats who held firm. Maplight asks, "Why did these ninety-four House members have a change of heart? Their constituents deserve answers." Across both parties, representatives who voted for immunity in June had received almost twice as much telecom money as those who voted against. Wired's coverage includes a quote from Larry Lessig, who is on the Maplight board: "Money corrupts the process of reasoning. [Lawmakers] get a sixth sense of how what they do might affect how they raise money."

Comments

First of all

[Romancer]

First: Dirty rat bastards!

Second: Duh.

Third: Fix it Obama!

Re:First of all

[Anonymous Coward]

Third: Fix it Obama!

You Obamatards crack me up. I really hope it doesn't take electing an unqualified individual to be POTUS before you realize how limited the office of the President truly is.

But it probably will.

Even more guffaws to be had when your O-savior is proved impotent.

Dear rest of the world,

[Anonymous Coward]

How about you run your respective countries the way you see fit and we'll run ours the way we see fit. After all, that is what sovereign means, does it not?

PS. Feel free to allow tyrants, massive corruption and whole sale slaughter all over the rest of the world as you have for the last 100 years or so.

Re:This is the change we voted for?

[HappyEngineer]

Personally, I don't want activity. I want them to stop passing fucking awful laws. You only need 40% to do that. They have 40% and yet they are still passing fucking awful laws.

There is a difference though. While nearly 100% of the Republicans vote for these fucking awful laws, only 50%-80% of the Democrats do, so that's an improvement right? Pfft.