There are limits to corporate donations and lobbying, which is why the price of lobbying seems so low (see the linked blog post in the comments here!)

SuperPACs get around that, but there is a chance a large company like Inuit isn't agile enough to defend against a well organized political attack.

Ultimately career politicians care about being elected. Even corrupt ones need to stay in office and they'll happily sacrifice one small donor to keep the gravy train coming with all their other connections.

If an independently funded lobbying group walks into DC and tells a senator they just raised 30M dollars and 80k residents in their state donated as part of that, I bet people will start to listen.