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Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell bluntly warned Republican senators in a private meeting not to sign on to a bill from Sen. Josh Hawley aimed at limiting corporate money bankrolling high-powered outside groups, telling them that many of them won their seats thanks to the powerful super PAC the Kentucky Republican has long controlled.

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[-] [email protected] 56 points 8 months ago

Let them eat their own faces. Corruption of these folks Tammany Hall level is where we are again.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago

Did you see that hawley basically wants to over turn Citizens United? That could be major!

[-] yata 43 points 8 months ago

He doesn't though. It is all culture war posturing:

“Let’s get one thing straight,” Hawley bellowed this summer, “Corporations are not people.” The crowd, this one gathered in Washington for the social conservative Faith and Freedom Coalition summit, barely stirred. But then they erupted when the populist senator continued, “I’ve got news for these woke corporations: We are not going to surrender this nation to the cultural Marxists in the C-suite.”

[-] jballs 8 points 8 months ago

The cultural Marxists in the C-suite

Wtf does that even mean? It's just a nonsensical jumble of buzzwords thrown together. The crowd cheered for that?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Knew it. He's cutting off his nose to spite his face.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Must be an ulterior motive, like corporations being people makes anti abortion legislation impossible to write in legaleaze or similar.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

It pisses me off that I agree with Hawley about anything, but here we are.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I think it's always important to remember that people like him aren't evil incarnate they just have radically different worldviews, the majority of which I vehemently disagree with, but there's always some commonality out there somewhere. Cory Booker is working with Hawley on child labor prevention.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Thank you for some common sense and sanity here.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Rationality > Emotionality

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Tammany Hall got some things done.

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