46zilzal
10-10-2009, 01:03 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Graham_Phillips
"Phillips wrote an article in Cosmopolitan in March 1906, called "The Treason of the Senate", exposing campaign contributors being rewarded by certain members of the U. S. Senate. The story launched a scathing attack on Rhode Island senator Nelson W. Aldrich, and brought Phillips a great deal of national exposure. This and other similar articles helped lead to the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, initiating popular instead of state-legislature election of U. S. senators."
This fellow was profiled last night on Bill Moyer's show and his work was very interesting relative to today when the majority of congress are the paid puppets of corporations JUST LIKE the appointed senators were in the early nineteen hundreds when he wrote his ground breaking expose on the same thing.
These clowns are the private whores of big business and don't give a shit about the voters who put them there.
"Phillips wrote an article in Cosmopolitan in March 1906, called "The Treason of the Senate", exposing campaign contributors being rewarded by certain members of the U. S. Senate. The story launched a scathing attack on Rhode Island senator Nelson W. Aldrich, and brought Phillips a great deal of national exposure. This and other similar articles helped lead to the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, initiating popular instead of state-legislature election of U. S. senators."
This fellow was profiled last night on Bill Moyer's show and his work was very interesting relative to today when the majority of congress are the paid puppets of corporations JUST LIKE the appointed senators were in the early nineteen hundreds when he wrote his ground breaking expose on the same thing.
These clowns are the private whores of big business and don't give a shit about the voters who put them there.