Home Builders Halt Campaign Funds After Setback

National Association of Home Builders, one of the top 10 corporate donors to politicians, has stopped contributing to congressional candidates after it failed to get what it wanted in recent anti-recession legislation....Election experts said the lobby's move illustrated how closely interest groups tie their donations to the decisions they hope lawmakers will take on their behalf -- a connection that usually goes unspoken.

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Rory O'Connor
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by Rory O'Connor - Oct. 1, 2008

Campaign contributions from "interest groups" are tied to the decisions they hope lawmakers will take on their behalf? AS Louie put it in Casablanca, "I'm shocked!" Still, as this piece points out, the "connection that usually goes unspoken." This time it's explicit...

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