claim: "politicians and their corporate lobbyists are trying to take away my right to spend my paycheck how i want."
author: florida education association
evidence_1: jun 29, 2017 ... not even my half-million-a-year salary could outweigh my conscience. ... but the  truth is most lobbyists are not at all like abramoff or his ... everyone else out  because the result is the money in your politics ... americans' right “to redress”  comes at a cost, and if you don't have the .... it's a good business move.
evidence_2: apr 20, 2015 ... business didn't always have so much power in washington. ... for every dollar  spent on lobbying by labor unions and ... “when we look at the typical lobby,”  concluded three leading political scientists in their 1963 study, american ... than  trying to keep government out of its business (as they did for a long ...
evidence_3: mar 12, 2014 ... the trick is in knowing when to use the press and when to avoid it. the more  noise there is, the less control lobbyists have. as a way of talking ...
evidence_4: lobbying in the united states describes paid activity in which special interests  hire ... lobbying can have an important influence on the political system; for  example, .... and trying to end the "last in, first out" teacher hiring processes;  according to one .... major american corporations spent $345 million lobbying for  just three ...
evidence_5: learn more about the corporations and organizations that spend billions of ... the  primary goal of much of the money that flows through u.s. politics is this:  influence. ... to decision-makers in government, all in an attempt to influence their  thinking. ... use these resources in opensecrets.org's influence & lobbying  section, ...