No word yet on when Warren and Schumer are going to get upset with Google, Facebook, Tom Steyer, George Soros, Warren Buffett, and the Gates Foundation attempting to "influence" things.
On Wednesday, members of the Senate Finance Committee will vote on the nomination of Charles Blahous, a Republican, to serve a second term as a public trustee for Social Security. Mr. Blahous, a prominent opponent of Social Security and the architect of President George W. Bush’s efforts to privatize benefits, is part of an army of aggressive conservative ideologues groomed for government service and bankrolled by the Koch brothers. Their purpose is clear — to tilt the game in Washington ever further in favor of corporate special interests. The Senate should reject them.
For more than a decade, conservative activists like the Koch brothers have worked to distort our politics by using their vast corporate and personal wealth to rig the rules in Washington in favor of giant corporations like theirs. Their acidic influence on our elections is obvious, as far-right activists have exploited our broken campaign finance system to bankroll candidates who will espouse their rigidly pro-corporate, anti-government view.
But there is another, less obvious way that wealthy activists advance these interests. Through tax-deductible “charitable” donations, the Kochs are systematically manufacturing a legion of “experts” at universities and think tanks across the country — and then fighting to place them in Executive Branch positions so they can undermine the government from the inside.
Tuesday, June 07, 2016
Senators Warren , Schumer , and Whitehouse: The Koch Brothers Are Trying To Handpick Government Officials. We Have To Stop Them.
The Huffington Post has an article from Warren , Schumer, and Whitehouse:
