The Loaded Chamber: Secret Money (VIDEO)
Friday 22 October 2010
by: Harry Hanbury | GRITtv | Video Report
(Photo: Steve Rhodes / Flickr)
"The chamber’s increasingly aggressive role — including record spending in the midterm elections that supports Republicans more than 90 percent of the time — has made it a target of critics, including a few local chamber affiliates who fear it has become too partisan and hard-nosed in its fund-raising."
So reports a headline story in the New York Times Thursday about the Chamber of Commerce's increasingly secretive and partisan fundraising and lobbying efforts. The Chamber, once an institution that supported small and family businesses, increasingly does the bidding of a few large corporations, and in the first part of our GRITtv Digs investigation, Harry Hanbury starts to open up the Chamber's secrets for you.
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I own a small business.
Sat, 10/23/2010 - 16:59 — slidinghomeInOregon (not verified)I own a small business. Twenty years ago the U.S Chamber of Commerce approached me to become a member (I have always belonged to my local chapter).
After reading their literature and finding out how anti-labor they are, I declined. This has been going on at the national level for a long time, but the frenzy this election year seems to be stratospheric. With the Supreme Court's intrusion decision that corporations are "people", this will not stop until Congress passes a law to counter the court decision.
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Sun, 10/24/2010 - 04:59 — Anonymous (not verified)Why can't the U.S. President Veto Supreme Court decisions. Or just limit the length Judges can sit on the Courts. The way it is now, there's an abuse of power.
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Why can't the U.S.
Mon, 10/25/2010 - 09:54 — Maymet@mac.com (not verified)Why can't the U.S. President?
It is called separation of powers. We have given the Supreme Court the final say in matters, sometimes it works infavor of our ideas and sometimes it doesn't. It is the system we have and we gotta live with it!