The banksters love Scottie Brown:
In a six-day span just before the US Senate election, Republican Scott Brown collected nearly $450,000 from donors who work at financial companies, a sign the industry is prepared to spend heavily in the upcoming midterm elections to beat back new controls and taxes President Obama wants to impose.
The donations, from hundreds of financial executives, far exceeded what Brown received from doctors and others in the health care industry in the final days of the campaign. While Brown saw donations from all quarters explode in mid-January, as polls showed him closing fast on opponent Martha Coakley, the donations from financial workers coincided with several key developments that would affect their companies.
This wasn't a "kill health care" Senate seat purchase. This was a "preserve my $100 million bonus" Senate seat purchase.
The news of just who was most invested in getting that seat flipped to the R-side of the aisle comes on a day when Americans United for Change launches a most appropriately themed ad in the DC market: