It hit me like a ton of bricks when I saw this week that Susan Collins received $1.8 million in donations after voting to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court—by far the most she's ever raised in a quarter.1 The fact that there's a financial incentive for a senator to confirm a justice to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court is an insult to democracy.
But there's reason to keep our heads up! H.R.1, the Democrats' sweeping anti-corruption and pro-democracy bill to rein in the influence of money in politics and expand voting rights, is wildly popular with voters—across the political spectrum.2
And Republicans are terrified.
Republicans in the House rightly said this week that the impacts of the bill would be "chilling," and Mitch McConnell believes it's a "power grab."3,4
You betcha! A power grab for the people.
richard09
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Subject: Re: Corruption in Politics Wed Feb 13, 2019 4:57 pm
When I first arrived in America and heard about "lobbying", I said to someone "In England, we call that bribery and corruption". They grinned and said "That's always the way it's been in America".
True, dat.
NoCoPilot
Posts : 20278 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 69 Location : Seattle
Subject: Re: Corruption in Politics Sat Feb 23, 2019 8:28 am
American democracy is evaporating, bit by bit.
NoCoPilot
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Subject: Re: Corruption in Politics Mon Feb 25, 2019 9:22 pm
Subject: Re: Corruption in Politics Tue Feb 26, 2019 9:59 am
That was why they made sure to remove Spiro Agnew before taking down Nixon. Didn't help much, but if we have President Pelosi, I think she'll let them all rot.
NoCoPilot
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Subject: Re: Corruption in Politics Tue Feb 26, 2019 12:09 pm
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