Posted on 11/03/2023 12:37:03 PM PDT by Grandpa Drudge
Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell bluntly warned Republican senators in a private meeting not to sign on to a bill from Sen. Josh Hawley aimed at limiting corporate money bankrolling high-powered outside groups, telling them that many of them won their seats thanks to the powerful super PAC the Kentucky Republican has long controlled.
According to multiple sources familiar with the Tuesday lunch meeting, McConnell warned GOP senators that they could face “incoming” from the “center-right” if they signed onto Hawley’s bill. He also read off a list of senators who won their races amid heavy financial support from the Senate Leadership Fund, an outside group tied to the GOP leader that spends big on TV ads in battleground Senate races. On that list of senators: Hawley himself, according to sources familiar with the matter.
McConnell has long been a chief opponent of tighter campaign finance restrictions. But there’s also no love lost between McConnell and Hawley, who has long criticized the GOP leader and has repeatedly called for new leadership atop their conference. Just on Tuesday, Hawley told CNN that it was “mistake” for McConnell to be “standing with” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, in their push to tie Ukraine aid to an Israel funding package.
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If McC is so all-knowing, why isn’t he back home helping Daniel Cameron in the last days of the governor’s race?
Hawley is the one who is grandstanding. It won’t get anywhere. Who controls the senate? It’s all for show.
Interesting that we apparently are now all for McCain-Feingold style “reforms” and now oppose the Citizens United Supreme Court decision.
Used to be entirely the opposite around here as we can see from the comments section:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2848799/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3140175/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2448757/posts
Wouldn’t matter if Republicans would actually support their own candidates instead of having to beg McConnell to throw them crumbs. The Democrats’ Super PACs are just gravy on top of the mountains of cash they raise from their grassroots.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2435420/posts
We now apparently hold the views of Obama on this issue (Citizens United / McCain Feingold)
Obama’s position is now the conservative position - the previous conservative position is now the RINO position.
The 17th Amendment changed the Constitutional method for electing US Senators from being chosen by their state legislatures to popular vote like the House of Representatives. It was done in 1913 with President Wilson under the guise of making elections more ‘democratic’.
The reality was that it put the US Senate into the pocket of Corporate America, because senatorial candidates now needed lots of money to run for the Senate, as opposed to being senior politicians in their own state, which effectively cost nothing.
Currently it takes about 20 million dollars to campaign for a Senate seat, and for re election it means a sitting senator must raise 10 thousand dollars a day, every day, for six years. Consequently, they spend all their time fund raising, and leave the actual work of legislating to their staff.
Additionally, Corporate America no longer exists, and the Senate is now under the thumb of a cabal of unAmerican international corporate conglomerates, who have no loyalty to the US.
The only reasonable solution to the massive bribery and corruption in DC is to repeal the 17th Amendment as soon as possible.
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