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In reply to the discussion: Mainstream Media Refused to Report Trump's Bombshell Quid Pro Quo Offer to Big Oil Execs [View all]Kid Berwyn
(22,638 posts)Here's who they ALL will serve -- and it's not "We the People":
Oil & Gas Summary
from Open Secrets
Led by the oil and gas industry, this sector regularly pumps the vast majority of its campaign contributions into Republican coffers. Even as other traditionally GOP-inclined industries have shifted somewhat to the left, this sector has remained rock-solid red.
Since the 1990 election cycle, more than two-thirds of this sectors contributions to candidates and party committees has gone to Republicans. Besides oil and gas, the electric utilities industry is another big donor in this sector. Less generous, but even more partisan, is the mining industry. [Read more Background]
Source: https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus?ind=E01
Little Sister, "the antidote to Big Brother," has a wonderful database of Who's Who and how they connect. For instance:
Pennsylvania Politicians Attend Lavish Fossil Fuel, Anti-Union Party in Manhattan
https://littlesis.org/news/pennsylvania-politicians-attend-lavish-fossil-fuel-anti-union-party-in-manhattan/
Until now, I never knew Jeff Yass had so much money and so many friends.