Are corporations and wealthy individuals currying favor with elected officials when they cough up money in response to pleas for disaster relief?

Seems likely, under the logic of campaign-finance law.

Robert Bauer, a Democratic campaign-finance lawyer, has been doing some very interesting blogging on this recently.

Start here:

A favor done is a favor done: in all cases, we are left with an elected official who needed money for some purpose and got it.

There is absolutely no bottom to the slippery slope that John McCain has put us on.