Commentary: Rich politicians will take care of their ownBy Fred Grimm | The Miami Herald
Posted on Thursday, December 23, 2010
The rich are different from you and me. Well, me anyway. And they're damn well positioned to keep it that way.
Florida not only got itself a fabulously wealthy governor (after he spent $73 million of his own money to get elected, maybe it's more accurate to suggest Rick Scott got himself a state) but a Legislature laden with millionaires.
Eighteen millionaires will be slumming in the state Senate. That's 18 out of 40 senators.
Down the hallway, 34 millionaires vote in the House. Out of 120 state reps. Rich reps are forced to mingle with the unwashed rabble.
The U.S. Congress wallows in even more disproportionate affluence than our elected moneybags in Tallahassee. According to the Center for Responsive Politics (a name plucked from the land of wishful thinking) 261 members of Congress are millionaires, and 55 are worth more than $10 million.