Daily Yonder Roundup: If political contributions influence the political process, rural Wisconsin residents may be out of luck, a report from the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign shows.The nonpartisan group found that 90% of Wisconsin’s political contributions of $100 or more came from just a fifth of the state’s ZIP codes. Almost all those big-donor ZIPs were in urban and suburban communities.“Most of the money is coming from urban and suburban zip codes,” Mike McCabe told the La Crosse Tribune. “That goes a long way to explaining why neither party has much of a rural agenda. … The bottom line is politicians are not talking about rural issues because they can’t raise money talking about rural issues.”See on www.dailyyonder.com
