“Michael Podhorzer, a senior Trumka adviser, said: ‘We believe democracy is stronger than Trump. We are not looking for a fight. We want the election results to be respected. We’re getting ready if they’re not respected because of what he said. We believe this is a country where what voters say matters.’”
Charlie Cooper from Marty Wulfe
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"Donors giving over $100,000 in an election cycle are part of an elite group, representing less than 0.00001% of the United States population, but accounting for over one-fifth of all contributions to federal elections, according to figures released by the Center for Responsive Politics in late September."
Charlie Coope
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“Donors giving over $100,000 in an election cycle are part of an elite group, representing less than 0.00001% of the United States population, but accounting for over one-fifth of all contributions to federal elections, according to figures released by the Center for Responsive Politics in late September.”
Charlie Coope
A federal bankruptcy court in Delaware is forbidding the release of information about who benefitted from millions of dollars of political spending by Extraction Oil and Gas. The company says release would enable its competitors to buy favor with politicians that it has developed relationships with.
“First, the case proves what a complete sham Citizens United really is. The Supreme Court pretended that corporate independent expenditures on politics don’t corrupt anything, and now Extraction openly admits that political expenditures are used to advance business interests.
“Second, dark money may have just gotten a lot darker. Delaware is the home to thousands of corporations, and now its federal bankruptcy court has ruled that companies can keep their dark money expenditures on politics secret in bankruptcy proceedings.
“In a sense, it is a special carveout for records that document influence buying: While companies’ day-to-day financial records remain available for public scrutiny in bankruptcy, now there’s a ruling that allows those companies to hide exactly which politicians and political groups they are bankrolling.”
Charlie Cooper
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Subject: Press Release: UPDATED—The 2020 election is now expected to near $14 billion in total spending
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North Carolina, Georgia, and Texas are called the worst offenders.
Charlie Cooper
Submission of votes by fax or e-mail is a particularly vulnerability, and it may not jeopardize only the votes cast by those methods, but may open up election networks to general invasion.
Charlie Cooper
Charlie Cooper
Schwarzman heads financial giant Blackrock, which has received hundreds of millions of dollars of tax benefits already from the Trump tax cut.
Charlie Cooper
