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Joe Biden and Democrats are wallowing in dark money - and hypocrisy

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Lol! Fuck you gronk.  You ignorant math challenged lying cunt.

Democrats hate “Big Money” in politics, unless they get more of 
it than Republicans.

On the second day of confirmation hearings for President Trump’s 
Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, Sen. Sheldon 
Whitehouse (D-R.I.) entertained the nation with a lengthy 
treatise on how “dark money” is corroding our political system. 
He spoke nonstop for 27 minutes, lecturing Judge Barrett on the 
supposedly nefarious Republican plot to put conservative judges 
on the nation’s courts. He asked not a single question of the 
nominee.

It turns out that Whitehouse had already sprung his 
presentation, complete with charts and diagrams, on Judge 
Barrett during his pre-hearing interview. So, the senator’s 
showboating was not to learn her opinions on matters of the law 
but instead to show the American people how righteously angry 
Whitehouse is about the evils of “dark money.”

For those confused by the term, “dark money” describes funds 
given to social welfare nonprofits set up under section 
501(c)(4) of the tax code, which do not have to reveal their 
donors. Those groups can use their funds to influence a campaign 
but are not allowed to coordinate their efforts with a candidate.

It was refreshing to hear Whitehouse rail about dark money in 
politics; the topic used to be a hot one for Democrats. Lately, 
not so much. Why is that? Because starting in 2018, Democrats 
hauled in a lot more such funding than Republicans. In effect, 
they won the “dark money” race, and never looked back.

Denouncing Big Money – dark and light – has been a staple 
talking point for Democrats, including Democratic presidential 
nominee Joe Biden, for years. The former vice president, for 
instance, joined Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie 
Sanders (I-Vt.) during the Democratic primaries last year in 
opposing the use of super PACs.

Biden refused to take money from such groups, until, that is, he 
struggled to raise campaign cash, at which point he reversed 
course and opened his coffers to super PAC dough.

As did, by the way, Warren and even Sanders, who finally opened 
Our Revolution, which operated much like a super PAC.

Democrats are, according to NBC, winning the super PAC race this 
cycle, taking in and spending more than the GOP. Thus, they no 
longer rant against those vehicles either.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) rebutted Whitehouse’s hypocrisy, 
pointing out that “Of the top 20 organizations spending money 
for political speech in the year 2016, 14 of them gave virtually 
all of their money to Democrats… That meant the top 20 SuperPAC 
donors contributed $422 million to Democrats and 189 million to 
Republicans.”

Cruz also noted that Whitehouse “talked about big corporate 
powers without acknowledging that the contributions from the 
Fortune 500 in this presidential election overwhelmingly favor 
Joe Biden and The Democrats. Without acknowledging that the 
contributions from Wall Street in this election overwhelmingly 
favor Joe Biden and the Democrats.”

Cruz is right. Biden positions himself as the candidate who will 
protect middle class workers from big and powerful corporate 
interests. But it turns out those big and powerful interests are 
lining up solidly behind Joe.

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/521179-joe-biden-and-
democrats-are-wallowing-in-dark-money-and-hypocrisy
 

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Joe Biden and Democrats are wallowing in dark money - and hypocrisy Rudy Canoza gronk Abuser <cap@hendrie.con> - 2021-08-09 14:30 +0200

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