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Corporate Takeover of Texas Legislature

By AAN Staff
september 2, 2003  10:27 am
Corporate Takeover of Texas Legislature
In Texas, history has a way of repeating itself. Jake Bernstein and Dave Mann of The Texas Observer reveal how last year a small group of politicians and corporations bought themselves a legislature and poured hundreds of millions back into the pockets of the corporations. The no-holds-barred campaign was run through the Texas Association of Business and U.S. House Whip Tom Delay's Texans for a Republican Majority. Both entities took a calculated risk, which paid off with the first Republican Texas legislature in 130 years, but both are now under investigation.
View full article at The Texas Observer