<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 28px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Here's a statistic that should jolt you awake like black coffee with three shots of espresso dropped in: In the 2012 election cycle, 28 percent of all disclosed donations—that's $1.68 billion—came from just 31,385 people. Think of them as the 1 percenters of the 1 percent, the elite of the elite, the wealthiest of the wealthy.</span></div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/06/one-percent-wealthy-dominate-2012-elections-congress">http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/06/one-percent-wealthy-dominate-2012-elections-congress</a></body></html>