Is Paul Hodes an addict feigning recovery when it comes to big money from big places? No. He’s just pretending because it’s an election year. But he’s happy to pay lip service to the faerie tale that Republicans are the party of big bankers, big business, and big money.
First up, this lovely graphic from the print edition of The Weekly Standard. It shows the top twenty wealthiest zip codes in America, and to the right what percentage of political donations these ‘rich folk’ fork over to each party. Don’t be too surprised. They overwhelmingly support democrat candidates over republican ones. Big money is in league with the democrats.
In the Hodes top five campaign donors for companies we find two investment firms, Goldman Sachs, and FMR–which is Fidelity Investments. Insurance and legal round out the rich, with healthy returns from unions which are really just big businesses milking workers for their living.
So where does that leaves us? Democrats are the party of big banks, big business, and the rich, and Paul Hodes knows his part in the formula. He’s a functionary in Big Government Inc. Play class warfare for the little people while you deposit checks from the some of the wealthiest and connected businesses and business people in America.
So Paul Paul Hodes is a man of the people; the rich and powerful people.
Cross Posted from NH Insider
