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Political Factoid
Shareholders of large corporations
see lots of their money going to
political lobbying activities.
Jesse Solomon listed the following examples in
his 2014-Oct-01 CNN Money article.
Examples of some
publically traded companies: |
Lobbying * |
| General Electric |
$134 million |
| AT&T |
$91 million |
| Boeing Co |
$90 million |
| Northrop Grumman |
$88 million |
| Comcast Corp |
$86 million |
| Verizon Communications |
$86 million |
| FedExCorp |
$86 million |
| Exxon Mobil |
$85 million |
| Lockheed Martin |
$79 million |
| Pfizer |
$78 million |
| Google |
$62 million |
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And this excluded millions of more dollars
laundered through the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce and numerous other intermediary
organizations.
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