And yes, foreign companies are involved according to the report. Corporate America and beyond has declared war on the Democrats. No matter how gently they have been treated despite ruining the economy, they apparently believe that they need even more. Thankfully for these corporations, the GOP is ready and willing to give them their dream list.
As bad as it is to see corporate America trashing the system, we need to learn a lot more about all foreign sources of money that are polluting the US election.
Prudential Financial sent in a $2 million donation last year as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched a national advertising campaign to weaken the historic rewrite of the nation’s financial regulations.
Dow Chemical delivered $1.7 million to the chamber last year as the group took a leading role in aggressively fighting proposed new rules that would impose tighter security requirements on chemical facilities.
And Goldman Sachs, Chevron Texaco, and Aegon, a multinational insurance company based in the Netherlands, donated more than $8 million in recent years to a chamber foundation that has helped wage a national campaign to limit the ability of trial lawyers to sue businesses.
