As State’s Top Corporations Continue Giving To GOP, Cornyn Gets More Than Anyone

Although most major corporations around the nations are becoming a little more ‘blue’ in their giving following the Democrats’ takeover of both houses of Congress, Texas’ Fortune 500 remains blood red. Their favorite money pot? The campaign coffers of one U.S. Senator John Cornyn:

The favorite candidate of Texas’ largest companies is Cornyn, a first-term Republican senator who is up for re-election in 2008.

Cornyn has received $66,330 from the state’s Fortune 500 companies in the first nine months of 2007, according to FEC records.

The free-enterprise conservative from San Antonio has received 100 percent of the business PAC donations to the Texas Senate race, where the early Democratic front-runner is state Rep. Rick Noriega, D-Houston.

Cornyn campaign spokesman Kevin McLaughlin says the senator “understands that government’s role is providing a pro-growth environment, where taxes are low and government red tape is kept to a minimum.”

I’ll be glad when Bablefish puts online a “Conservative Doublespeak to plain English” translator so you at home can figure out what Cornyn’s spokesman is really trying to say. In the interim, I’ll translate for you.

What Corn Dog’s spokesman is saying is this: companies like John Cornyn because he lets them pollute with no regulation; get away with injuring people and not paying for it; keep taxes high on the middle class and low on business; keep taxes low for the CEO’s and the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans; and generally keep the government from doing anything to stop a major corporation from doing whatever it damned well pleases.

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