It’s obvious that Joe Knollenberg doesn’t care about the needs of the Ninth District.

Maybe it’s because we aren’t the ones paying for his campaigns.

Do you wonder why your electric bills keep climbing? You could complain to your congressman, but you probably can’t match the $215,551 Joe Knollenberg has gotten from electric utilities since 1998.

Are you angry at how much you have to pay for insurance? Give Joe Knollenberg $203,100 like the insurance industry has, and he’ll get right on that for you.

Do you think the Big Three should be held accountable for abandoning Michigan in a wild rush of outsourcing? Joe Knollenberg will listen, if you top the $137,800 they’ve paid him to take care of them in Congress.

Getting tired of your flights being late or cancelled? Joe Knollenberg has 132,341 reasons to worry more about the airline industry than he does about you.

There’s also $99,514 from law firms, $91,000 from banks and $77,120 from the health-care industry.

But just in case that’s still not enough, Republican leadership PACs have paid Joe Knollenberg another $150,207 to make sure of his loyalties.

Since he arrived on Capitol Hill in 1993, Joe Knollenberg has taken over $2.6 million from Big Business. Is it any wonder he’s forgotten about the people he is supposed to represent?

All statistics courtesy of the Center for Responsive Politics.