Dem presidential candidates and their fundraising strategies

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/politics/democrats-2020-donors.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Watch "HR1: A Call for Campaign Finance Reform, Ethics, and Voting Rights" on YouTube

https://youtu.be/l65HjZXtBuY

New DCCC chair is best friend of health insurance corps.

https://www.tarbell.org/2019/03/democrats-on-the-take-new-dccc-chair-is-a-best-friend-of-health-insurers/?ref=featured&link_id=5&can_id=e96967e6939a941dbdebb8356ad281a2&source=email-m4a-medicare-advantage-hospital-mergers-pharma-whats-the-real-cost&email_referrer=email_514037&email_subject=m4a-medicare-advantage-hospital-mergers-pharma-whats-the-real-cost

Charlie Cooper

Money in politics allows Boeing to keep plane flying in U. S.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/business/boeing-flights-grounded.html?emc=edit_th_190313&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=572131130313

 

Other nations have grounded the Boeing Max 8 after 2 catastrophic crashes. A list of a year’s worth of political spending on Boeing’s website stretches on for 14 pages, listing campaign contributions to lawmakers ranging from a city councilman in South Carolina to Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, who is now the House speaker.

 

 

Charlie Cooper

 

 

Donor interest results in suppression of the super-majority

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/opinion/oppression-majority.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Congress is not responsive to reasonable proposals favored by large majorities of voters.

Charlie Cooper

Direct-to-physician marketing: a policy that led to opioid epidemic

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-oxycontin-catastrophe-highlights-a-big-failure-in-policy/2019/02/25/b72dc184-391a-11e9-aaae-69364b2ed137_story.html?utm_term=.d3e3553a0c97&wpisrc=nl_ideas&wpmm=1

 

 

Charlie Cooper

A billion $ in dark money: Tip of the iceberg

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/02/somp3-billion-dollar-dark-money-tip-of-the-iceberg/?utm_source=February+Donor+Appeal+List&utm_campaign=833670a9d3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_02_22_10_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ce7c3ba3d-833670a9d3-212208581

 

Fully undisclosed political money since 2006 has exceeded $1 billion, but there are partially disclosed funds that put the total over $2 billion.

 

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