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  • When it came time to choose between standing up for the millions of unemployed and the future stability of the American economy or the special-interests that fund her campaigns, Congresswoman Schmidt clearly chose the latter.

    Surya Yalamanchili: Bigger National Crisis: Bedbugs or Unemployment? Surya Yalamanchili 2010

  • The other is constituted of all sorts of narcissisms, special-interests groups and organizations actively devoted to the destruction of our society.

    St. Paul's Occupied Cathedral Douglas Murray 2011

  • When it came time to choose between standing up for the millions of unemployed and the future stability of the American economy or the special-interests that fund her campaigns, Congresswoman Schmidt clearly chose the latter.

    Surya Yalamanchili: Bigger National Crisis: Bedbugs or Unemployment? Surya Yalamanchili 2010

  • Mr. Miliband was only nine years old in 1979, when union special-interests held the country hostage to their demands.

    The Return of Old Labour 2010

  • Turns out Lisa Madigan, who's been pretending to be above all the corruption and campaign finance problems of Illinois, has been raking in millions of cash from the same old sources of problems, including lobbyists, special-interests and various political cronies.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • When it came time to choose between standing up for the millions of unemployed and the future stability of the American economy or the special-interests that fund her campaigns, Congresswoman Schmidt clearly chose the latter.

    Surya Yalamanchili: Bigger National Crisis: Bedbugs or Unemployment? Surya Yalamanchili 2010

  • Turns out Lisa Madigan, who's been pretending to be above all the corruption and campaign finance problems of Illinois, has been raking in millions of cash from the same old sources of problems, including lobbyists, special-interests and various political cronies.

    Election 2010 | Birkett Says No to Illinois Attorney General Race Against Lisa Madigan's Warchest of Cronies and Special-Interests 2009

  • The majority of the country does support a carbon cap, just not intensely enough to overcome regionally based special-interests -- Coal Country especially -- that place significant pressure on the U.S. Senate.

    Bill Scher: Way Past Time for Symbolism on Climate Crisis 2010

  • A broad-based social movement that has the capacity to articulate an alternative collective vision to the narrow, corporatist special-interests that control our budgets and strategic planning will be necessary.

    Seeking Solidarity Among K-12 and University Educators: "Occupy and Escalate" Jim Horn 2009

  • A broad-based social movement that has the capacity to articulate an alternative collective vision to the narrow, corporatist special-interests that control our budgets and strategic planning will be necessary.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Jim Horn 2009

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