On: Government-grade spyware hits Mexican advocates of soda tax

[vkou]

Political lobbying has some of the highest RoI a business can hope for. At a municipal level, a few hundred dollars can be sufficient to turn a councilor, get access to edit legislature as it is written, or just get your proposed legislature accepted as verbatim.

If the local media doesn't make a stink of it, you'll get away with it, too.

[kevin_thibedeau → vkou]

> get access to edit legislature as it is written

In the US most legislation is already written by the lobbyists themselves.

[vkou → kevin_thibedeau]

... Because they have access. Through lobbying. It's not a state of nature.