Dark Money

Greasing the Bench

  -by Skip Kaltenheuser John Grisham, meister of legal thrillers, must look at the Dark Money flying about Supreme Court nominees and think, “You stinking thieves, give me my book plots back!” In a logical world, in a sane US Senate resistant to corruption, Senators would give the bum's rush to nominees to the Supreme Court who are being promoted with millions, tens of millions, in dark money.

With the Media Fixated on Trump, the Koch Brothers Flex Corporate Cash

Multibillionaires Charles and David Koch want nothing less than to supplant America’s core democratic principle of majority rule — the will of The People — with their core plutocratic principle of inviolable property rights, also known as domination by the wealthy minority. Their notion is that “property” (accumulated wealth and the means to get it) is sacrosanct and cannot be restricted by the pesky majority for the Common Good.

Trump’s Secretive ‘Deep Industry’ Teams Hired To Roll Back Regulations

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt holds up a hardhat he was given during a visit to Consol Pennsylvania Coal Company’s Harvey Mine in Sycamore, Pa., April 13, 2017. (AP/Gene J. Puskar)
President Trump entered office pledging to cut red tape, and within weeks, he ordered his administration to assemble teams to aggressively scale back government regulations.

Hillary Clinton Establishes ‘Onward Together’, a New Dark Money Collecting Super PAC

Hillary is launching a new organization, Onward Together, to build a network of Democrat candidates in the 2018 elections. She needs a new stream of income, since her other organizations have dried up. Her new PAC (Political Action Committee) is a 501(c)4 organization, which will enable her to accept money from unidentified donors. Perfect! [...]