Personally I cant stand this dork

Sen. Whitehouse, A Critic of ‘Dark Money,’ Has Ties to Dark Money

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.), a frequent critic of "dark money" influencing Congress, has connections to Gara LaMarche, the president of Democracy Alliance, a secretive group which helps coordinate funding between left-wing donors and Democratic Congress members.

LaMarche is also the chair of the New Press, who published Whitehouse's 2017 book Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy. Whitehouse and LaMarche toured the book together after its publication.

"I think if Thomas Jefferson and James Madison came back here now and looked around they'd be stunned at a lot of different aspects of our lives," Whitehouse told LaMarche in one of the book talks, according to a report in the Westerly Sun. "But I think one thing that would really astound them would be the fact that corporations have such a big role in our democracy."

In March 2019, Whitehouse delivered a speech on the Senate floor criticizing the Federalist Society for aiding President Donald Trump in selecting nominees for the Supreme Court. On Thursday, he delivered a similar speech, this time criticizing energy companies for influencing legislators to oppose bills addressing climate change, specifically the Green New Deal….

https://freebeacon.com/politics/sen-whitehouse-a-critic-of-dark-money-has-ties-to-dark-money/