New Mexico Watchdog: Following the MONEY

New Mexico Watchdog - It’s a threat so dire, protesters seized city parks throughout the nation. In their view, corporate spending holds too much sway in U.S. politics. Protesters chant Occupy slogans for myriad reasons, but the populist movement by its very name challenges the role of big money in politics. The movement’s remedies lean decidedly towards the left. More than a few elected Democrats have joined in with Occupy chorus – including Pres. Obama in a Kansas speech that highlighted the core Occupy theme about disparity of wealth and political power. In practice, Democrat office holders have been more receptive toward big money in the political process.

This year’s class of Democrats in the Roundhouse finds broad financial support among business interests – more so, in fact, than their Republican peers. Among members of the 2012 New Mexico legislature, Democrats on average accepted 20 percent more campaign contributions from big-business spenders than did the average Republican. The finding resulted from a Watchdog review of more than 17,000 campaign contributions, based on election records gathered by followthemoney.org. Read full story here: News New Mexico

New Mexico Watchdog: Following the MONEY