Author Topic: Senators Authorizing Syria Strike Got more Defence Campaign Contributions  (Read 399 times)

Offline JohnyMac

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Veritas sent me this article.

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Senators voting Wednesday to authorize a Syria strike received, on average, 83 percent more campaign financing from defense contractors than lawmakers voting against war.

Overall, political action committees and employees from defense and intelligence firms such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, United Technologies, Honeywell International, and others ponied up $1,006,887 to the 17 members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who voted yes or no on the authorization Wednesday, according to an analysis by Maplight, the Berkeley-based nonprofit that performed the inquiry at WIRED?s request.

Committee members who voted to authorize what the resolution called a ?limited? strike averaged $72,850 in defense campaign financing from the pot. Committee members who voted against the resolution averaged $39,770, according to the data.


http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/syria-war-authorization-money/
This my shocked face  :o
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Re: Senators Authorizing Syria Strike Got more Defence Campaign Contributions
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2013, 11:13:04 AM »
The Military Industrial Complex rules this nation, just like Ike said back in 1961.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military?industrial_complex