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| NYT: Democrats' ‘Dark Money' Outspent Republicans' by 66% in 2020 | ||
| 2022-01-31 | ||
| [Breitbart] Democrats have complained about so-called “dark money” for a decade, but they benefited from $1.5 billion in “dark money” spending in the 2020 election, compared to $900 million for Republicans, according to a recent New York Times analysis. “Dark money” is money spent by groups outside campaigns and political parties that do not have to disclose their donors — either because they are organized as “social welfare” organizations under section 501(c)4 of the federal tax code, or as 501(c)3 charities receiving contributions from donor-advised funds that allow many donors to remain anonymous. Democrats have claimed for years that Republicans are the primary beneficiaries of “dark money,” ever since the Supreme Court decided in the Citizens United case in 2011 that the Federal Elections Commission could not censor an anti-Hillary Clinton film before an election because people organized as corporations, no less than individuals, have free speech rights. Clinton and almost every Democrat since has run on a pledge to revise the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to limit the ability of corporations to spend on elections. Meanwhile, however, they have built a dominant “dark money” machine. The Times‘ Kenneth P. Vogel and Shane Goldmacher note that Democrats even funded “Republican” anti-Trump groups: The analysis shows that 15 of the most politically active nonprofit organizations that generally align with the Democratic Party spent more than $1.5 billion in 2020 — compared to roughly $900 million spent by a comparable sample of 15 of the most politically active groups aligned with the G.O.P. On the left, the prospect of a second Trump term spurred a new class of megadonors, and helped allay lingering qualms about the corrosive effect of secret money among some Democrats. Republicans are attempting to catch up, organizing their own “dark money” efforts to oppose President Joe Biden and his policies. However, they have much catching up to do. Biden, who struggled early in the race, raised over $1 billion directly in 2020, versus $800 million for President Donald Trump, who was outspent though he had the advantage of incumbency. Related: Dark money: 2022-01-07 Big Left-Wing 'Dark Money' Groups Fund Schumer's Secretive Anti-Filibuster Ally Dark money: 2021-11-29 ‘More money than God:' Chinese titan lavished Hunter Biden with 3-carat gem, offer of $30 million Dark money: 2021-10-27 New head of powerful US liberal donor group looks to shake secretive reputation Related: Sixteen Thirty Fund: 2022-01-07 Big Left-Wing 'Dark Money' Groups Fund Schumer's Secretive Anti-Filibuster Ally Sixteen Thirty Fund: 2021-05-12 Democrats' HR1 election bill boosted by liberal dark money group financed by foreign national Sixteen Thirty Fund: 2021-03-24 Dark Money Fuels Push to Ditch Filibuster | ||
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #9 How it happened. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-01-31 20:34 |
| #8 Besoker I’m in blue/blue DeKalb, Brookhaven and I never saw signs like normal. My flannel wearing, Indigo Girls loving, Subaru driving neighbors didn’t post an Ossoff sign It was weird. |
| Posted by: Beavis 2022-01-31 20:27 |
| #7 The way to take down oligarchs is to take down their familys. This is what BLM was doing Eh? Please expand on this thought, Omating Smith8675. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-01-31 19:43 |
| #6 Damn sure it wasn't Cherokee, Pickens, or Bibb Counties. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-01-31 17:41 |
| #5 #4 that was Cobb, Fulton and Gwinnett County manipulations. |
| Posted by: Beavis 2022-01-31 17:26 |
| #4 and despite their dark money advantage the Dem's almost lost the House of Rep in 2020 and they would have lost the Senate also but for some GA republicans not voting in the run off because of 'your vote won't count' type advertisements. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2022-01-31 16:01 |
| #3 Everyone looks out for their family first. The way to take down oligarchs is to take down their familys. This is what BLM was doing but they did not go high enough up the tree. |
| Posted by: Omating Smith8675 2022-01-31 12:47 |
| #2 Money is only the root of all evil when it's being spent by other people with other ideas. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-01-31 07:35 |
| #1 Liars. These are the flaming assholes who bleated for decades about "big money" was corrupting our politics, how the GOP was the party of "no billionaire left behind," how giant corporations like hAlliBUrToN!!! dominate our politics. How "democracy does in darkness." Etc etc. So much ridiculous, day-is-night and up-is-down retarded bullshit. Such shameless hypocrites. Literally nothing they say can be believed. Shittiest political class in modern US history. |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-31 07:31 |