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Comment by coreymgilmore | Hacker News Reader

With the current state of politics in the US, I'm not surprised by this. A successful privately owned company being the target of "red-taping" since I doubt SpaceX provides the political donations that a company like Boeing does.

This is unfortunate and hopefully it goes no where. Sounds like Elon needs to get the Tesla lawyers who have reversed states' legislation against selling cars directly to start working on this too.

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Oddly enough, I tried out Greenhouse -- http://allaregreen.us/ -- (the plugin that gives you donor information for congress persons) on the four different people cited, and big donations from defense contractors and aerospace only figured for one of them, so it's not quite as simple as I thought. Or perhaps the money is more cleverly disguised.

I wouldn't put much stock in that information. It is really easy to just put down anything on the donation form. You need to actually go look at the names of the people who made the donations and see what they are connected to.

From the article: "As one might expect, government officials who have such contractors in their own districts and states are unhappy with this."

If many local jobs are being threatened, a politician would want to be seen attempting to protect them. No bribes required.

Doesn't count PAC money. The top of the corp rarely gets attributed for the money the move around. The FEC accounting only applies to worker class.

These congressmen are representatives of their districts, so I'm not sure why we are surprised when the congressmen speak up for the people that are in their districts.

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