{"id":2549,"date":"2010-08-12T00:30:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T07:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2549"},"modified":"2010-08-12T00:30:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T07:30:52","slug":"democrats-sold-out-for-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/12\/democrats-sold-out-for-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Sold Out? For What?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost everywhere I turn, I\u2019m hearing that the Democratic Party has sold out to corporate donors.  Consider this:<\/font><\/p>\n

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…Republicans also attempted to obstruct the Democrats\u2019 financial reform bill which passed last month<\/a> with the support of just three Senate Republicans. Because of their willingness to always stand on the side of corporations, Republicans are being rewarded by big business. The Financial Times reports<\/a> on a Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) study<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Wall Street executives are donating nearly 70 per cent of their political contributions to Republican candidates ahead of November\u2019s mid-term elections<\/span>, representing a significant shift in allegiances across an industry that has in recent history heavily favoured Democrats. […]<\/p>\n

Wall Street executives began favouring Republicans over Democrats in December of last year, but the month of June marked the largest gap between donations to the two parties and federal candidates. The shift coincided with the intense debate on Capitol Hill over financial services reform, legislation that was passed in July.<\/span><\/p>\n

This graph from the CRP shows the percentage of Wall Street dollars flowing to each party… [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

Hey Democratic politicians!  If you think caving-in to corporate criminals is worth it, get some Vaseline, because you\u2019re getting you know what you know where!!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost everywhere I turn, I\u2019m hearing that the Democratic Party has sold out to corporate donors.  Consider this: …Republicans also attempted to obstruct the Democrats\u2019 financial reform bill which passed last month with the support of just three Senate Republicans. Because of their willingness to always stand on the side of corporations, Republicans are being […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}