Hightower Lowdown

THE 2006 ELECTION RESULTS HAVE JUST COME IN! Not the polling results for Congress, of course—we got those last November. I’m talking about the money numbers—the votes cast in cash by major corporations eager to elect Congress critters beholden to them.

The final reports to the Federal Election Commission arrived last month, revealing that a record level of corporate money poured into the corrupt system, with the preponderance of it flowing into the coffers of Republican candidates. It was hardly surprising, as George W and GOP congressional leaders have long since hitched themselves to the corporate wagon, loading it with billions of dollars’ worth of special tax breaks, regulatory favors, trade scams, no-bid contracts, subsidies, and other goodies. [ read more ]