My argument that voting is just the price of admission into democracy, and that you need to actually pay government reps to remember why you voted for them may have been an epiphany for me, but apparently has been well understood by business and unions for years:
https://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2010/10/08/us/politics/08donate-g.html?ref=politics and
http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/09/congress-corporate-sponsors This, I guess, is part of why business hate unions, and, conversely, why unions are still hugely important and necessary.
M.