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Old 01-02-2014, 10:44 AM
 
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For Fiscal Year 2013

Lobbying Spending Database | OpenSecrets

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Health $359,164,761
Finance/Insur/RealEst $358,942,430
Misc Business $350,900,935
Communic/Electronics $288,680,454
Energy/Nat Resource $261,382,097
Transportation $165,675,354
Other $163,073,742
Agribusiness $111,549,142
Ideology/Single-Issue $106,948,007
Defense $97,131,983
Construction $36,859,622
Labor $34,815,938
Lawyers & Lobbyists $16,724,041
Labor

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Public Sector Unions $10,170,296
Transportation Unions $8,813,779
Misc Unions $6,291,000
Industrial Unions $5,745,763
Building Trade Unions $3,795,100
They have no power at all compared to the Big Dogs
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Old 01-02-2014, 10:45 AM
 
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It's good to know liberals aren't addressing the tens of millions spent by labor unions. Just as I expected. I always though unions were the little guy being pushed around by the big bag republican corporations. Labor unions don't look so modest.
How about we get rid of Lobbying and Bribes all together? We'll see who has more to lose.
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Old 01-02-2014, 10:48 AM
 
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For Fiscal Year 2013

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Labor



They have no power at all compared to the Big Dogs
Considering that 99% of union money goes to Democrats, they do have a ton of power.
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Old 01-02-2014, 10:52 AM
 
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Considering that 99% of union money goes to Democrats, they do have a ton of power.
Again, lets end all political bribes and lobbying and see who has more to lose?
Kapish?

Let the Elites at the top hit the pavement with a poster and bull horn like every other citizen.
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Old 01-02-2014, 10:52 AM
 
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Considering that 99% of union money goes to Democrats, they do have a ton of power.
Still no source, I see. Just the imaginings of a fevered RWNJ brain.
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Old 01-02-2014, 10:55 AM
 
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It's good to know liberals aren't addressing the tens of millions spent by labor unions. Just as I expected.
what's to address? it is far less than the superpacs.
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Old 01-02-2014, 10:56 AM
 
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what's to address? it is far less than the superpacs.
Superpacs don't matter. The Left has them too! WTF?
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Old 01-02-2014, 10:57 AM
 
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Still no source, I see. Just the imaginings of a fevered RWNJ brain.
Whatever...What a braindead post. You actually need a source to tell you that unions support the Dems mainly? Really?????? LMFAO!
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Old 01-02-2014, 10:57 AM
 
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It's good to know liberals aren't addressing the tens of millions spent by labor unions. Just as I expected. I always though unions were the little guy being pushed around by the big bag republican corporations. Labor unions don't look so modest.
I am sure those numbers are inaccurate too cause that is obviously a bogus chart.
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Old 01-02-2014, 10:59 AM
 
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It's good to know liberals aren't addressing the tens of millions spent by labor unions. Just as I expected. I always though unions were the little guy being pushed around by the big bag republican corporations. Labor unions don't look so modest.
No one is addressing it because it hasn't been proven to be true. People address things in reality, not fanatasy.

It's like saying no one has addressed the eating habits of unicorns and dragons, that you haven't even proven to exist, therefore you win the argument.

It is a sign of a damaged mind.
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