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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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