“The last lesson in unusual politics comes from Costco, longtime home of the $1.50 hot dog and gummy bears by the barrel. Using its newfound powers as a corporation-as-a-person granted them by the Supreme Court, Citizen Costco spent about $20 million on an initiative to persuade Washington voters to privatize the liquor business. No corporation, or individual, had ever spent so much money in the state on any voter measure.”