DARK MONEY PART I: Sheldon Whitehouse Slams Ted Cruz About Dark Money
CALL TO ACTIVISM: Holy shit. After getting humiliated by Tucker Carlson, Ted Cruz just got walloped again by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. This is glorious.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is one of my heroes. He is forever on the trail of dark money. In "The Scheme," he brilliantly described the trail of dark money channeled through The Federalist Society in order to stack the judiciary, including the Supreme Court, with far-right ideologues that would, over time, move the US towards oligarchy/plutocracy.
And now in the above video, we see him slam Ted Cruz about both political parties and dark money in campaign finance.
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
TED CRUZ: My Democrat colleagues never seem concerned by that massive money on the left, which is considerably larger than the money that is supporting Republicans. SHELDON WHITEHOUSE: Again, since you are speaking about me, that's also not true. I am the actual lead sponsor of an act that would end dark money. And it wouldn't end it, just on your side, it would end it for everyone. Everyone would know who is funding people's campaigns. And every Democrat votes for that bill to get rid of dark money, and every Republican votes against that bill to protect dark money, largely because the fossil fuel industry's dark money is the lifeblood of the Republican political operation, and you don't want to see that exposed.
__________ The video was modified from its original source using, including adding auto-generated subtitles provided by Kapwing. Credit to @ladytuarach whose earlier post inspired this one.
