The 158 Families Funding the 2016 Presidential Election

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This is bullsht. How about teachers' unions, the worst poison in U.S. education, contribute millions and millions of dollars to the democrats every year.

Sure, it's not a "family". But teachers' unions collect money from public teachers, who get paid by tax payers. How can they contribute to political party?

When will leftists start to talk about this?

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=l1300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG8w9PcA-ig

$20 million is a lot of money. There are 3.1 million teachers in the US [1], so about $7 a piece go toward lobbying per year.

David Koch alone in this election cycle, " ... hopes to spend up to $300 million on candidates and another $600 million on efforts to reduce regulations and reform the criminal justice system." [2]

So I mean ...

[1] http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2015/09/30/the-bigg...

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