Saturday, October 17, 2015

Dirty energy plutocrats are trying to buy the presidential election

http://grist.org/politics/dirty-energy-plutocrats-are-trying-to-buy-the-presidential-election/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily-horizon
"Of the 158 mega-donors, the most common industry in which they have made their money is finance and the second biggest is energy, mostly oil and gas. The donors are disproportionately old, white, and male, concentrated in a handful of very rich, non-diverse neighborhoods. Most importantly, their politics are not representative of the country at all: 138 of the 158, or 87 percent, are Republicans."