PACs

Eric Zuesse

Rajan Menon looks at two recent scandals and what they show about the nexus between wealth and power in America.  By Rajan Menon TomDispatch.com Despair about the state of our politics pervades the political spectrum, from left to right. One source of…Read more →

In his 2018 TV ad (above) "ex"-Republican candidate-- and multimillion dollar lottery winner-- now-Congressman Gil Cisneros said specifically "I won't take corporate PAC money... because leading by example is how we fix Washington." This invitation comes from his DC fundraiser Amy Strathdee, but please notice on the bottom who's paying for it. Also notice that the hosts are sleaze bag lobbyists. Mercado works for the American Petroleum Institute and Duran and Pino work for Walmart and Comcast.

Since Kirsten Gillibrand first ran for Congress, joined the Blue Dogs, got appointed the the Senate and kept making nice with Wall Street all the way through, she's taken $9,148,338 from the finance sector.

According to CleanSlateNow.org, there are only six members of the House who don't take PAC money-- 4 Democrats and 2 Republicans:

(ANTIMEDIA)  —  On Friday morning, protesters blocked newly-confirmed Education Secretary Betsy DeVos from entering a school in Washington, D.C.
The day before that, Representative ’s words were drowned out by taunts from a raucous crowd in Utah.

The 2016 elections is a little over a year away and candidates have already raised hundreds of millions of dollars. Just in the last 3 months-- and just the candidates for president (so not people running for Congress or for governor or for state legislatures or anything else-- raised around $150,000,000. Most of the candidates from both the completely corrupt Beltway party establishments have raised MOST of their campaign money in the for of legalized bribes.

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Hmm, back in February 2011 (the same month that "Hosni Mubarak stepped down from power") Fox Noise couldn't seem to figure out whether Tyler Harber was "President, Wilson Research Strategies" or -- as he was identified in a graphic seconds later -- "VP AND DIRECTOR OF POLITICAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS DIVISION AT WRS." The following year Elections and Campaigns magazine would name the Republican consultant a "Rising Star.""It was something

Participating in US politics, as a citizen activist, puts you face-to-face with corruption and the ugliness of money-politics.