Summary: In 1990 oil & gas contributions to republicans was 6.5m which represented 62% of the total for both parties. Last year that Number was 20.5m and 80%.
[...] Why don’t the republicans use this method? They certainly could. I don’t believe they want to. Beneath the veil of “moral values†they are a party of corporate interests, which benefits from a top-down electoral system. They need to control the nomination process to insure their corporate contributors get the results they are paying for. The simple 20-80% balance between Gas & Oil contributions by party speaks loudly to that fact, as does the cost of gasoline, the war in Iraq, and the high decibel fear mongering about terrorists, sex and the secret conspiracy of social engineering to destroy the “natural family.†[...]
May 8th, 2006 at 2:25 pm
[...] Why don’t the republicans use this method? They certainly could. I don’t believe they want to. Beneath the veil of “moral values†they are a party of corporate interests, which benefits from a top-down electoral system. They need to control the nomination process to insure their corporate contributors get the results they are paying for. The simple 20-80% balance between Gas & Oil contributions by party speaks loudly to that fact, as does the cost of gasoline, the war in Iraq, and the high decibel fear mongering about terrorists, sex and the secret conspiracy of social engineering to destroy the “natural family.†[...]