Friday, June 18, 2010

oil spill sidelight

Just a note on the continuing ecological and political disaster in the Gulf.

Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex) received $10,000 in 2008 from the national real estate trade association's political action fund. In the 2010 cycle he received $5000. Check out this opensecrets website to see who gets money at the Federal level for voting "pro real estate". You'll see some names familiar from the news feeds. Funny thing is the recipients of these contributions vote on other things too--who woulda thought? Maybe real estate issues are all that matters?

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