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Major props to GlitterGirl for this link to Skeptical Brotha, a Memphis [thank you, GlitterGirl] blog that’s blown the whistle on Nikki Tinker’s status as “Trojan Horse” for the GOP corporatocracy:

… The corporate tentacles of GOP power are all over the corporate mammy’s campaign filings. Phil Trenary, the CEO of Pinnacle Airlines, gave, along with his board members McGehee, Schockley, and Hunt, other executives, and their wives, nearly $25,000 to Nikki’s campaign.

McGehee and his kith and kin in particular, are major GOP moneybags having contributed more than $49,000 to the Republican Party and its candidates since 1997 and collectively kicked $8,600 into Aunt Nikki’s campaign coffers.

Other Airline industry players like Colgan Air, Sky West, and Jet Blue funneled nearly $13,000 through their executives to Nikki.

Moreover, law firms specializing in the employment law racket also took special notice of the corporate mammy. Baker & Hostetler, a major right-wing pocket, kicked in $4900. Baker & Hostetler lobbyists and lawyers have given more than $ 70,250 to Republican candidates and organizations in the last three election cycles; a sum, which is four times what they gave to Democrats. …

Much more there on Harold Ford, Jr., EMILY’s List, et al. As Skeptical Brotha says, Tinker & Friends’ comeuppance “couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of cynical operators and puppet masters.”