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Well lookie there....
After all this verbiage about the evil US Chamber of Commerce trying to "buy" the election, look who the real "Big Dog" is....
Why non-other than the Association of State, Federal and Municipal Employees....
Imagine that....
As I take out my trusty calculator and do the math, looking at the top spenders, I see $140 mil. total for primarily Republican candidates, and 171.5 mil. for primarily Democratic candidates....
About 20% more for Dems than Reps....
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 90288.htmlThe political debate over spending by outside groups has focused largely on advertising buys by those Republican-oriented groups. Unions have mostly escaped attention in that debate, in part because they traditionally have spent much of their cash on other kinds of political activities, including get-out-the-vote efforts.
Previously, most labor-sponsored campaign ads had to be funded by volunteer donations. Now, however, AFSCME can pay for ads using annual dues from members, which amount to about $390 per person. AFSCME said it will tap membership dues to pay for $17 million of ads backing Democrats this election.