http://www.statesman.com/metrostate/content/auto/epaper/editions/friday/metro_state_34504865d5f6806800c0.htmlA lawsuit against the Texas Association of Business has been expanded to include several corporate donors, most of them insurance companies, that financed the association's 2002 direct-mail campaign that's part of a grand jury investigation.
Austin lawyer Buck Wood, representing three former Democratic candidates who were opposed by the association, now has named eight corporations as defendants: AT&T Corp., Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Co., Ace American Insurance Co., Aetna Inc., Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., United Healthcare of Texas, Cigna Healthcare of Texas Inc. and America's Health Insurance Plans.
More corporations might be added as defendants, Wood said.
The Texas Association of Business, the state's largest business organization, spent about $1.7 million of corporate money on ads mailed to voters in two dozen crucial state legislative campaigns. The effort was paid for by donations, from $100 to $300,000, from 30 or so firms.
Insurance companies oh my, say it isn't so! :sarcasm:
Insurance companies bought the Texas republican legislature by donating heavily to their races in 2002, the republicans then let them write the "tort reform bill" (Prop 12) in 2003 and finance the media campaign of lies that eked out that victory. Yep, that's how it works in corrupt Texas corporate politics.
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