Fox News‘ parent company, News Corp. made headlines earlier this year for donating $1 million to the Republican Governor’s Association. Looks like that wasn’t their only beneficiary: The Republican-allied U.S. Chamber of Commerce received the same sum this past summer.The Chamber of Commerce, a powerful lobby for businesses both large and small, but mostly large, has been funding an aggressive campaign on behalf of the Republican party, spending some $6.7 million so far to air around 8,000 ads for Republican candidates. This is all because Republicans have “pro-business policies,” such as, “don’t do anything about global warming, ever” and “lower taxes on corporations to unbelievable, unsustainable levels,” while Democrats hate business, and spend all their time in Das Kapital study groups.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=120368