This just in. It seems that contrary to the Republican/corporate sweep across America, there were a few pockets of crusty holdouts who voted in their own best interests, not the interests of corporations, as so many of their fellow voters did last Tuesday.
Shocking as it is, some voters questioned the conventional and accepted wisdom of the Supreme Court , and said, "heck no corporations are not people, or if they are, I'm a more important person, and my interests come first."
They showed this contrariness by voting in favor of measures
for raising the minimum wage in some surprising places like Arkansas for Pete's sake, home of Walmart, a very unhappy corporate person right now. They also passed measures against fracking, not just on the Left Coast, where measures passed in Mendocino and San Benito Counties, but in Ohio and Denton Texas.
But anyone feeling sorry for the corporations should take heart that they are not accepting this insult to their personhood lying down. "Who are these peons, who probably committed voter fraud in the first
place, to tell us we can't claim our God-given right to drill under
their land and set their water on fire," asked an indigent spokesperson
for the Texas Oil and Gas Association which is already cranking up a lawsuit to overturn the fracking ban.
In another unlikely and humiliating rebuff to the corporate authority, which really has their best interests at heart, voters in Richmond California, home of Chevron, who is itself a major employer (and polluter, thus also boosting the economy in terms of hospital admissions and sales of hazmat suits) rebuffed the hand picked City Council candidates Chevron spent millions of their hard earned money promoting with cheery billboards and TV ads.
"How could people be so blind as to vote for candidates belonging to something called the Richmond Progressive Alliance, bad branding if I've ever seen it," grumbled a corporate executive from his vacation home in Aruba, shortly after election results were posted online and blasted out by all the major news outlets in the country.
"Next time, we'll hire some guys to dress in baggy
pants and hoodies to go out into the hood and talk sense into these people, except now we have to pay them $15 an hour, so we have to think long and
hard on that one."
Maybe a lawsuit would be more effective.
