Special interests funnel $6 million to Florida lawmakers
In the latest election cycle, dozens of Florida legislators raked in $6 million in special-interest campaign money and spent a good deal of it on themselves for meals, rental cars, plane trips and hotels.
Some lawmakers are feeding at the trough of contributors, enjoying expensive dinners at upscale restaurants with donors' money at a time when one of every 10 Floridians is on food stamps. Others are churning cash from one political committee to ...
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The door was cracked open by Reagan and thrown open by Geo. W. Bush. It's every man for himself, and audacity is the word. This could go on for decades or centuries. The time for regaining conrol of our own system of government is coming to an end, and will take a furious public uprising to beat the clock.