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Gloria Kunik's avatar

Even though I had a college internship with the chamber, it was for a particular purpose that I understood, but I never understood the chamber itself. Now, all these years later, your reporting on them has blown my mind. Never did I dream a collective like this could achieve an extreme level of political influence. Naïveté is my only excuse. Campaigns against them aren’t as potent as against individual corps, so I’m glad to see the plan for ATT. I’m leaning toward the strategy that campaigns should focus on what these bills specifically provide/do and the expected outcomes, and then target companies accordingly and specifically.

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Chris Woods's avatar

I think it would be very helpful to have a label for these people and organizations that is as catchy as "Socialism" that the GQP uses to communicate in sound bites.

"1%" works well for people. What can we label an ATT or Chamber of Commerce when they go for the money instead of society's welfare?

Maybe the "Corporate 1%" because the average company is probably trying do the right thing for the world, since their owners and people are on the front lines?

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