Posted on 09/23/2022 12:54:45 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked legislation that would have required super PACs and other groups to disclose donors who give $10,000 or more during an election cycle, a blow to Democrats’ efforts to reform campaign financing laws.
In a procedural vote Thursday morning, the Senate failed to advance the Disclose Act on a 49-49 vote along party lines. No Republicans voted for it. At least 60 votes would have been required for the Senate to end debate on the bill and advance it.
Spending in election cycles by corporations and the ultrawealthy through so-called dark money groups has skyrocketed since the 2010 Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. FEC, which allowed incorporated entities and labor unions to spend unlimited amounts of money to promote or attack candidates. Democrats have railed unsuccessfully against the ruling for more than a decade, saying the ability for corporations and billionaires to advocate for or against candidates anonymously through such groups has given them outsize influence in American politics. Republicans have defended the right of corporations to make political donations, even as some of them have called for greater transparency in campaign financing.
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Good.
Sheldon Whitehouse hit hardest
The Dems will have billions from “dark money donors” regardless, so might as well make it a level playing field. Good job for a change, GOP.
Wait a minute. If the Democrat Party doesn’t know the donors live, it won’t be able to send goons to their houses and intimidate them.
This is a threat to democracy!
Only those who can vote for a candidate should be able to contribute to their election campaign.
The wealthy should not be allowed to be involved in politics or government. They’re too out of touch.
“the ability for corporations and billionaires to advocate for or against candidates anonymously through such groups has given them outsize influence in American politics”
THAT is true.
If you require listing all who gave, the litle guy who kicks in $1,000, will get black listed and hammered by all who oppose, while the Tides Foundation and Emilys’s List Slush Funds hide all their grifters.
Hell, if voting actually mattered,
they wouldn’t let you do it.
Dark money for Democrats, as in Soros, is fine and would be ignored by the Gestapo.
Many multinationals are partially owned by foreign governments in the form of sovereign wealth funds. Saudi Arabia has investments in many companies, Uber for example. Communist China does as well with Lyft. Corporations like those enter into the political arena and are given a pass under our political donation laws.
Let me guess; its a bill targeting GOP donors and exempts dimocrap donors?
Further protects the deep state.
The Republicans can stop *this* bill, but they can’t top anything else.
POLITICIAN....the only four letter word spelled with ten letters.
IMO, all donations should be disclosed.
Case in point, in Alabama when Judge Roy Moore was running for office a PAC called "Highway31 PAC" sprouted up to support doug jones by smearing Moore on a daily basis. To this day, nobody knows who their donors are or where the donors are from.
All out of state donations to a candidate should be banned.
Let's take the disgusting, fat, gap-toothed, racist, pig stacy abrams for this example. Does anyone believe that all that money came from Georgia voters? No, it came from hollyweird creeps, and self loathing new yorkers. If the pig only had to rely solely on the donations from those she's wanting to govern, she would have been back chowing down at the nearest all you can eat buffet without so much as a whimper a long time ago.
A PAC that's directly or indirectly supporting a candidate should be based in the candidates home state, not halfway across the country.
I'm talking about the two, yes TWO Autism Texas based (Alabama Christian Conservatives, and AlabamaRINO) PACs that was supporting the deep state whore katie britt in Alabama. These two PACs ran over the top attack ads against both Mo Brooks and Mike Durant, while the open borders whore ran her nauseating little cutie pie ads that were blatant lies (support law enforcement, and securing the border) whitewashing her real positions of being a lobbyist for the states' chamber of commerce demanding cheap labor, and helping the poverty pimpin mayor of Montgomeridishu steven reed draw up a plan to defund and otherwise hamper the Montgomery Police Department.
Works both ways. The RATs don’t have to disclose theirs either. The difference is that we might boycott businesses which are RAT donors. The RATs would be likely to burn ours out or attack their people.
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