Super Committee's CONNECTIONS to lobbyists

Bipartisanship is being served with makeup of "SUPER COMMITTEE" WHEN:

Over the past 10 years member lawmakers on super committee received in campaign contributions from special interests;

More than 100 "super committee" staffers for super committee members have moved on to lobbying shops

Political action committees and other industry groups representing the health care industry, financial industry, defense contractors and more now have "staffers" working from them that served "super committee" lawmakers now appointed to "super committee".

THIS INFORMATION IS REASON LAWMAKERS' STOP FUNDRAISING WHILE THEY DO THEIR WORK!

Supreme court ruling in U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission wherein Supreme court said "Corporations are people".

A Missoula City Council member is pushing her colleagues to place a referendum on the next ballot that asks voters if they want to urge the state and U.S. Congress to support a constitutional amendment to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision and declare that corporations are not people.

Two towns in Wisconsin have held similar votes, with voters overwhelmingly saying that corporations aren’t people (no matter what Mitt Romney may think), and Boulder, Colo., is slated to do so later this year.

New York caps on the amount party committees and candidates can give---which goes up every 4 years based on CPI---individuals or legal partnerships may give $102,300 to a party committee, up from $94,200.

Starbucks CEO calls for halt on political contributions
Disgusted with the deficit reduction negotiations, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is calling on members of the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ to stop making political contributions until Congress and the president “deliver a fiscally disciplined, long-term debt and deficit plan.”

You can’t make this stuff up: the latest Colbert PAC development
The treasurer of comedian Stephen Colbert’s mock Super PAC is leaving to go to a real campaign. Salvatore Purpura, who has been treasurer of Colbert’s Super PAC, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, is now treasurer for presidential candidate Rick Perry.

If it walks like a lobbyist and talks like a lobbyist, it probably is a lobbyist
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a Minnesota group that connects corporations with state lawmakers to draft model legislation, should register as a lobbyist under state law, experts say. “The fact that ALEC … does these direct activities to meet with lawmakers in Minnesota and to proselytize this model law and then help them draft it into actual state legislation, that crosses the line,” said Public Citizen’s lobbying expert Craig Holman. ALEC is stubbornly maintaining that it is not a lobbyist and merely takes a policy position.

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