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Dressed up in their designer suits, they trade in human cargo
The new racketeers
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- Zapping the beef supply
- Granny d marches on!
- Postmodern piracy
- Suffer the little children
- Hogs at the trough
- Charity begins in the house
- Bill's beer
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February's Lowdown
How corporate money took over Washington--and created the mobs who rant against reform
Despite a constant racket from the forces of the far-out right (Fox television's yackety-yackers, just-say-no GOP know-nothings, tea-bag howlers, Sarah Palinistas, et al.), the great majority of Americans support a bold progressive agenda for our country, ranging from Medicare for all to the decentralization and re-regulation of Wall Street. Indeed, in the elections of 2006 and 2008, people voted for a fundamental break from Washington's 30-year push to enthrone a corporate kleptocracy.
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Suffer the little children
Skye Stolnitz of Los Angeles is a patron of Republican presidential hopeful Lamar Alexander; Asher Simon pumped big money into Sen. Diane Feinstein's re-election campaign; Lindsey Tobak topped them both, donating $20,000 in "soft money" to the Democratic Party.
Why are these political donors unusual in today's Big Money politics? They're too young to drive, order a beer or vote—just 10, 9 and 15 years old when they became contributors. The law imposes no age limit on contributors, so parents have begun to tap their children to skirt the legal limit of $1,000 that any individual can give to a particular candidate.
Skye's dad says his 10-year-old daughter's $1,000 contribution to Alexander came from her own checking account, and that when he told her about it "she did not object." Since 1991, children have "not objected" to their parents raiding their piggy banks to the tune of $7.5 million in contributions. So far, the junior league champ is Bradford Bainum, who gave $2,000 to candidates before he was two years old.
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