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Originally Posted by SamIam
Forgive me if this was already answered, but how much are coorporations now allowed to spend in elections?
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Depends on which tricks are being implemented. Back when regulation existed, First Energy has a potential Three Mile Island failure in their Davis Besse reactor. Two other plants with the same defect were ordered shut down immediately. But First Energy wanted to run another four months. So First Energy organized a $450,000 fund raiser for Bush Cheney. Then the NRC did not impose a shutdown of Davis Besse.
Well, when they took the cap off, that was the reactor that had a hole eaten completely through the containment dome. Had that Three Miles Island failure occured, there was no containment to hold that 60 pound per square inch explosion.
$450,000 - chump change now that corporations have no limits.