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Amazing whole story in a minute, not surprising though they have been telling us what they are doing for a long time through vehicles like this, but most people saw it as fairy tales. Thank you for sharing.
Nancy Pelosi, dark money, and the embarrassing hypocrisy of the Center for American Progress
The optics were absolutely awful, and that’s what made it perfect. The Center for American Progress has launched a crusade against the corroding influence of dark money in politics and so … CAP invited the biggest dark-money Democrat to an anticorruption, pro-voter summit. The progressive powerhouse invited House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to speak early Monday morning. It was billed as a discussion with the “key congresspersons who are leading the fight to restructure the rules of democracy in order to rebalance power for the people.” But Pelosi is more than happy with the current balance of power. Go check the Federal Election Commission reports. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Pelosi absolutely loves that PAC money. Between 1989 and 2019, the Democratic leader has racked up more than $7 million from the political action committees.
Don’t hate the partisan player, some might respond, hate the current political incentives. And they would be right. The system rewards this kind of fundraising these days. Legislation alone isn’t enough to leave a legacy. That requires a bundle of cash, and Pelosi has shown she is good for the money. That ugly fact of politics doesn’t lessen the embarrassment though. Three weeks before giving Pelosi the podium, CAP called on Democrats to reject PAC money. “While discouraging, the public’s outlook on our democracy provides Democrats with a golden opportunity,” CAP wrote in a June 28 press release. “There is an important way in which Democrats can demonstrate that they aren’t corrupted by the corporate special interests who voters believe are running Washington: Stop taking their money.” CAP wants future Democratic candidates to be like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York and Rep. Conor Lamb in Pennsylvania, who the liberal group praises for rejecting “corporate special interest money.” Maybe it is a worthy goal. It would be a lot more persuasive though if CAP practiced what they preached. While CAP doesn’t want candidates to take corporate money, they were more than happy to fill their own coffers with it. Released in 2013, the progressive goliath released a donor list that read like the New York Stock Exchange. They took money from Google and Walmart and Goldman Sachs. They cashed checks from T-Mobile and General Electric, Toyota and Visa. They filled their coffers with K Street dollars. With a history like that, it is no surprise that CAP invited a dark money politician like Pelosi to be their speaker.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/nancy-pelosi-dark-money-and-the-embarrassing-hypocrisy-of-the-center-for-american-progress
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