{"id":1272721,"date":"2022-02-05T00:07:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T05:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1272721"},"modified":"2022-02-05T00:07:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T05:07:32","slug":"schumer-aligned-group-brought-in-record-92m-in-dark-money-from-anonymous-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumer-aligned-group-brought-in-record-92m-in-dark-money-from-anonymous-donors\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer-Aligned Group Brought in Record $92M in Dark Money from Anonymous Donors"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fschumer-aligned-group-brought-in-record-92m-in-dark-money-from-anonymous-donors%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1272721&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">A dark money group aligned with Democrat Senate Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) brought in a record $92 million in dark money from anonymous donors while Schumer blasted Republicans for using dark money.<\/p>\n<p>Majority Forward is a nonprofit organization affiliated with Schumer\u2019s Senate Majority PAC. Between July 2019 and June 2020, Majority Forward hauled in $92 million, according to the organization\u2019s most recently&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/556620483\/Majority-Forward-tax-form\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released<\/a>&nbsp;tax forms.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>During the 2020 election cycle, Majority Forward gave Schumer\u2019s Senate Majority PAC $51 million in contributions, making it the largest donor to Schumer\u2019s PAC.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19719138\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/chuch-schumer-joe-biden-nancy-pelosi-jan6-2022-gettyimages.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19719138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/chuch-schumer-joe-biden-nancy-pelosi-jan6-2022-gettyimages.jpg\" alt=\"US President Joe Biden (C). with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (R) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, arrives at the US Capitol on January 6, 2022, to mark the anniversary of the attack on the Capitol in Washington, DC. - Thousands of supporters of then-president Donald Trump stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in a bid to prevent the certification of Biden&#039;s election victory. (Photo by Bill Clark \/ POOL \/ AFP) (Photo by BILL CLARK\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Joe Biden, with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, arrives at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2022, to mark the anniversary of the attack on the Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by BILL CLARK\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>While Schumer benefitted from millions of dark money dollars, he criticized Republicans for doing the same thing. Schumer also&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/alerts\/schumer-announces-senate-vote-on-for-the-people-act-after-recess\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pushed<\/a>&nbsp;the Senate to pass the For the People Act, which contains provisions requiring political nonprofits to disclose donors who contribute more than $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMajority Forward is kind of a dark money empire that the Democrat Party really doesn\u2019t want to talk about, especially Chuck Schumer,\u201d&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/schumer-aligned-dark-money-group-hauls-in-record-92-million-from-hidden-donors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;Parker Thayer, a Capital Research Center investigator.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe Democratic Party makes a big deal in public about getting rid of dark money, getting dark money out of politics, but the reality is even the <em>New York Times<\/em> is now reporting on this,\u201d Thayer&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/schumer-aligned-dark-money-group-hauls-in-record-92-million-from-hidden-donors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a>&nbsp;Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Thayer referred to a recent&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/29\/us\/politics\/democrats-dark-money-donors.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a>&nbsp;that found 15 of the most active Democrat dark money organizations outspent the top 15 Republican groups by a margin of over $600 million. Those Democrat dark money groups spent $1.5 billion during the 2020 cycle, compared to $900 million for Republican organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Thayer pointed out the hypocrisy,&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/schumer-aligned-dark-money-group-hauls-in-record-92-million-from-hidden-donors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">telling<\/a>&nbsp;Fox News:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Democrats use much more dark money than Republicans do, and they\u2019re more than willing to take that funding as long as it benefits them, but they\u2019ll still simultaneously call out conservatives and Republicans for using dark money as well.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Although Democrat dark money groups spent more than Republican groups in 2020, pro-GOP super PACs&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/01\/pro-gop-super-pacs-outraise-democrat-counterparts-midterms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outraised<\/a>&nbsp;their Democrat counterparts in 2021. For example, the pro-GOP Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF) raised double what the pro-democrat House Majority PAC did.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, CLF brought in $110 million, compared to House Majority PAC\u2019s $55 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dark money group aligned with Democrat Senate Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) brought in a record $92 million in dark money from anonymous donors while Schumer blasted Republicans for using &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}