Senator Chuck Schumer (D-Wall Street), responding to a Washington Post—ABC News poll in which 8 out of 10 of those questioned said they disapprove of the recent Supreme Court decision allowing corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on campaign advertising:
“If there’s one thing that Americans from the left, right and center can all agree on, it’s that they don’t want more special interests in our politics.”
This from a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions, and the Subcommittee on Securities and Investment, and whose top contributor list reads like this:
| Goldman Sachs | $481,040 |
| Citigroup Inc | $415,616 |
| Morgan Stanley | $305,946 |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co | $297,600 |
| Credit Suisse Group | $258,744 |
| UBS AG | $236,950 |
| Bear Stearns | $231,350 |
| Merrill Lynch | $226,150 |
| Lehman Brothers | $181,450 |
And who has received over $7 million in campaign contributions from the Securities and Investment Industries since 1989. No, we certainly don’t need more special interests in our politics, do we Chuck?
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