Which means that the racket is an underlying cause of vitriolic partisan battles. It's all about the money.The professional fund-raisers get a percentage of the money raised. The consultants who devise the lobbying campaigns get a percentage of the money spent. The lobbyists get to keep all of the rest that isn't used as campaign contributions to incumbent Congressmen & Senators. The people who direct the contributions get a percentage of the money given to the Congressmen & Senators. The Congressmen & Senators like the money they get. And they give a percentage of it which they spend to the consultants who share it with the professional fund-raisers.
It's a nice racket. And they are all motivated to scream loudly and be publicly nasty to show the contributors how hard they are fighting for whatever.
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The normal ratio is that when something turns into a fight, lobbying money goes up 5-7 times as much. That would indicate a quarter billion or so.
Discuss.
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When is it NOT about the money, or the power? These seem to be your two options. The thing about vitriolic partisan battles is that they are sure-fire attention-getters, and if that attention garners even more income... everybody in the racket, no matter what side, wins.
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