Time to move to another country. I guess I can tell the grandkids about how America went down the tubes thanks to greed.
Ha, Maria Cantwell doesnât seem* to have taken a dime. One more reason to be proud to be a Washingtonian.
*Of course, thereâs dark money, which she may have taken. But at least from the standpoint of this chart, it looks like she didnât take anything from those goddamned scumbag leeches who want strangle the very concepts of equality and freedom on the internet.
Or another planet. Oh wait⌠
I guess if America crowdfunded a âBribe A Legislator For Better Broadbandâ campaign, the ISPs would just empty a little bit more from their bottomless corporate pockets and things would be back to business as usual. As ever, it appears direct action is the only option or apathy.
Huh, Republicans took way more though it still amounts to peanuts.
Okay, who wants to start the Kickstarter campaign for buying these people back?
Thanks for the post Cory. Can you show this to Mark? Maybe heâll stop posting free schill-ads for Google and Uber? Google (and by investment Uber) is now one of the largest lobbyists in Washington. It doesnât feel a little icky to post information like this on the same page as reviews for products from one of the largest lobbyists?
Though dollars in politics is indeed a general problem, thereâs not much sense jumping on groups just based on whoâs spent the most lobbying dollars. What theyâre lobbying for is at least as important. In this particular case, Google seems to have been spending itâs money lobbying for net neutrality:
They already did.
Excellent point, even though being ok with institutionalized bribery as long as itâs something I agree with makes me just as guilty. To be totally honest with you, Iâve become so distrustful of the big-data gathering tech companies, that I have adopted a sort of âguilty until proven innocentâ disposition. Iâm probably just being reactionary, but itâs also based on a feeling of resentment for feeling obligated to spend time researching who I want to give my dollars, eyeballs, likes, and duck-face selfies to these days, and realizing how powerful companies like Google and Facebook really are. I remember the good old days, you could just trust corporations. Or maybe Iâm looking at the past through lead and asbestos colored glasses 
Yep, the dollars in politics existing at all is definitely an ugly thing.
And those deep cash pockets will remain full as long as the big providers have no meaningful competition, and there is no realistic way to create a competitor which will have any chance of survival.
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