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By Christian Heinze – The template of a greedy, heartless businessman who wants to buy votes has a long tradition in movies, books, and television.
“I want to run this town like a business,” Bobby Newport (played by Paul Rudd), said to the constituents of Pawnee, Indiana. “My opponent, Leslie Knope, has an anti-business agenda.”
When it was Knope’s turn, she shot back: “Corporations are not allowed to dictate what a city needs. The power belongs to the people.”
She then added: “Bobby Newport and his daddy would like you to think it belongs to them.” more> http://is.gd/pKFLjy
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