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Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
That $1.6 billion is already flowing to a shadowy network of nonprofits, where it’s buying ads, bulldozing candidates, and reshaping our country. It will change what you see and hear about American politics for years to come – you just won’t know who’s behind it. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
This is the GOP endgame. If they start slipping, if their messages aren’t landing, they’ll just spend more to drown out the other side. And their justices will keep gutting campaign finance laws with cases like Citizens United, until there’s nothing left to get in their way. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Of course dark money also gives Mitch McConnell his political artillery to run smear ads against Democratic Senate candidates. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
We already have an idea of how this dark money will be weaponized. Leo’s dark-money web funds voter suppression and disinformation, bogus arguments about “critical race theory,” and attacks on President Biden’s nominees. Expect to see a whole lot more of that now. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Right-wing donors used more than $580 million in dark money to pack the Supreme Court with Republican justices and demolish legal precedent. That effort was masterminded by Leonard Leo – the same guy who’s been given $1.6 BILLION by a single donor to use as he sees fit. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
How do you value the shade of a tree that is gone? — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
These are the kinds of harm that support IMF’s determination that we subsidize fossil fuel interests by $660B in US every year — harms these interests cause but don’t pay for. Trying to value the loss almost certainly undercounts it, too. https://t.co/oL1edhIaPc — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Billionaires shouldn’t be able to distort our politics through shadowy front groups, but the Supreme Court gave them a free pass with Citizens United. Let’s pass my DISCLOSE Act and get rid of this rot. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Be careful out and about in Rhode Island — severe storms and flooding. https://t.co/SF93eM2jAN — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Big Oil reported record profits while gas prices were way up – that’s your money, and they pocketed it. It’s time to pass my windfall profits clawback so big corporations can’t get away with this predatory behavior. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
RT @StopBigMoney: This is how republicans overturn roe, attack workers rights, and stop progress on climate change. They rig the system and… — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
https://t.co/LfLbtpZ7Iz — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
We take it as a given that Republicans will automatically do whatever the fossil fuel industry says, however dangerous or contrary to scientific evidence, without asking why. I think the explanation is fossil fuel money, particularly fossil fuel dark money. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Btw we’ve seen this play before, when Kochs bragged they’d spend $800 million, but it then went out through front groups with Koch role disguised. Pols know whom to please, but voters are misled when the slimy ads appear on their TV screens. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Here’s the same story via ProPublica. If this doesn’t wake us up to dark money, I don’t know what will. It makes Americans sick. We need to vote on DISCLOSE. https://t.co/GARp0ID4tX — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
RT @mjs_DC: After stacking the federal courts with conservative friends and allies, Leonard Leo has single-handedly amassed a $1.6 billion… — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
For 50 years, Rhode Islanders have been able to achieve their dreams of pursuing a higher education because of Pell Grants — the noble legacy of our own Senator Pell. I’m glad to mark this occasion by redoubling our efforts to strengthen this landmark program. https://t.co/2gC86SAaTe — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
It’s just a pity that the Republican Party is willing to hire itself out to this operation in return for unlimited dark-money election artillery. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
That’s why they captured the Supreme Court (using loads of dark money): a captured Supreme Court can do things for them that the public hates. And their Court minions are doing just that. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Let’s be clear: the creepy billionaire interests behind the massive dark-money machine would rather hold power in the smoking ruins of American democracy than live in a healthy democracy where they can’t sell their terrible ideas to a public that doesn’t want them. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
When this money lands in races, you can bet it will be well hidden behind phony front groups. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
The dark money machine heats up, and of course around the guy who used dark money to capture the Supreme Court for big special interests. All the more need for DISCLOSE vote. https://t.co/z5zpeRyS7V — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
$1 million for seditionists is just the reported contributions. The oily dark money dwarfs that, I’m certain. Citizens deserve to know. https://t.co/8lFBu5Wgf4 — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Lots of people out tonight to enjoy St. Rocco's Feast – a great Johnston tradition! https://t.co/lF3GpNuSv9 — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Even Trumpers condemn “the cult-like atmosphere of Trump world … as its vitriol, extreme rhetoric and blatant lies continue to tear the country apart." https://t.co/kfxWibL6Ws — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
On behalf of all Rhode Islanders, I was proud to join @ComdtUSCG to welcome the crew and families of USCGC Tahoma and USCGC Campbell to their new homeport at Naval Station Newport. https://t.co/oPIWPKhdjo — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
The opinion laying out OLC’s shape-shifting and inconsistent official court statements is another telling judicial reproach of DOJ/OLC. I have previously critiqued OLC, and this opinion provides more evidence. The record of this case does OLC no credit. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Without that, you’d have no FOIA left, since everything in life is to some degree a decision. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
I filed my amicus brief because the FOIA exemption by which the Department sought to keep the memo secret would have swallowed the rule – to be “pre-decisional,” it must relate to a defined agency decision; — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
The Mueller Report laid out Russia’s persistent interference for Trump in the presidential election and the facts of Trump’s obstruction of justice efforts (remember that, through all the Trump scandal fatigue?). — PolitiTweet.org
