{"id":1977051,"date":"2023-07-19T07:08:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T11:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-corporate-democrats-take-cash-from-pacs-funded-by-major-corporations-total-frauds\/"},"modified":"2023-07-19T07:11:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T11:11:41","slug":"anti-corporate-democrats-take-cash-from-pacs-funded-by-major-corporations-total-frauds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-corporate-democrats-take-cash-from-pacs-funded-by-major-corporations-total-frauds\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-corporate Democrats accept money from corporate-funded PACs: &#8216;Hypocrites&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fanti-corporate-democrats-take-cash-from-pacs-funded-by-major-corporations-total-frauds%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=1977051&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--><h2>House Democrats\u200b Continue to Accept Corporate PAC Donations\u2064 Despite\u200d Pledge<\/h2>\n<p>House Democrats \u2064who have \u2064vowed to decline cash from corporate PACs\u200b or tried to ban \u2063them pocketed\u200d large donations\u2064 in\u200c the second quarter of \u20642023 from committees bankrolled \u200dby \u2063major\u200d corporations, records show.<\/p>\n<h3>Breaking Their \u200cPledge<\/h3>\n<p>Reps. Jared Golden (D-ME), Mike Levin\u200d (D-CA), and Chris Pappas (D-NH) in 2021 \u200dand 2022\u200b co-sponsored the \u2063Ban\u2064 Corporate PACs Act,\u2064 which \u200bwould prohibit\u200c &#8220;for-profit\u200d corporations from\u2064 establishing or operating \u2062a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-corporate-democrats-take-cash-from-pacs-funded-by-major-corporations-total-frauds\/\" title=\"Anti-corporate Democrats accept money from corporate-funded PACs: 'Hypocrites'\">separate segregated political fund<\/a>.&#8221; Still, the long-shot \u200dproposal hasn&#8217;t stopped\u200b the cohort \u200cand other Democrats\u200c critical of corporate \u200cPACs\u200d from\u200d taking tens of thousands of dollars in campaign \u200bcontributions between\u200c April and June from corporate-backed leadership committees \u2062or, in some cases, corporations themselves,\u200d according to\u2064 Federal Election Commission filings.<\/p>\n<h3>The\u2062 Influence of Corporate Money<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Corporate money seeps all through \u2063the\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/can-biden-help-unite-america\/\" title=\"Can Biden Help Unite America?\">political system<\/a>,&#8221; Craig Holman, a government affairs \u200dlobbyist for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-reasons-making-taxpayers-pay-off-student-loans-is-a-rotten-idea\/\" title=\"5 Reasons Making Taxpayers Pay Off Student Loans Is A Rotten Idea\">left-leaning<\/a> think\u2064 tank Public Citizen, \u200ctold \u2062the Washington Examiner,\u200d noting \u2064this reality\u200c makes it \u200ddifficult for Democrats\u200d to follow an anti-corporate PAC pledge. \u200c&#8221;I \u200ddon&#8217;t \u200cobject to the ban, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bernie-hammers-tanden-for-taking-corporate-cash\/\" title=\"Bernie Hammers Tanden for Taking Corporate Cash\">corporate money<\/a>\u200d gets\u200c into these campaigns \u200danyway \u200dthrough other vehicles \u2063\u2014\u200b if not directly from \u200ccorporate PACs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the \u200clast\u200d several years, dozens of Democratic\u2064 members\u2064 of \u200cCongress have sworn \u200doff \u200ccorporate PAC \u2063money to try\u2064 to distance\u200d themselves from perceived special interests.\u200d The\u2062 move has\u2063 led\u2064 to \u2063calls of hypocrisy from Republicans since many top \u200bcompanies have continued to pour \u2064contributions \u200binto Democratic\u2062 campaign coffers.<\/p>\n<p>Lobbyists\u2063 and other government affairs staffers typically \u2063run \u200bcorporate \u200cPACs\u2063 and authorize donations, \u200ceven though\u2063 the committees fundraise \u2062from \u200bstockholders and senior employees,\u2063 according to End \u2062Citizens \u200dUnited, a\u2062 left-wing advocacy\u2064 group.<\/p>\n<h3>Breaking Down\u2064 the Donations<\/h3>\n<p>Golden, who in\u2064 May\u200c 2020 \u2064said in an \u2064anti-corporate PAC \u200cmoney advertisement\u200c he is &#8220;fighting\u200c for the \u200dMainers who work \u2064hard just to \u2063keep up \u200dwith the bills,&#8221; has \u2062continued\u2063 to have his \u2063war\u200b chest boosted thanks to\u2062 corporate PAC-funded Democratic\u200b leadership committees.\u2064 In backing the ban on corporate PACs, Golden said the \u201cgovernment\u200c should be responsive to the people, not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/remember-when-liberals-thought-corporate-speech-was-evil\/\" title=\"Remember When Liberals Thought Corporate Speech Was Evil?\">corporate special interests<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Maine Democrat \u2063was on\u200d the\u2063 receiving \u2062end of\u2064 $17,000 in \u2063campaign donations from eight leadership committees\u200d backed by corporate \u2063PACs, according\u2062 to \u2062a \u2064Washington\u200b Examiner analysis of \u2062second-quarter disclosures.\u200d For \u200cinstance, Blue Hen Federal\u200c PAC, which is \u200baffiliated\u2063 with \u200cSen. Chris \u200bCoons\u200c (D-DE), \u2064cut\u2062 Golden \u2062a $5,000\u200c check\u2063 in June.<\/p>\n<p>Levin received more\u2062 than\u2062 $20,000 in the second quarter\u2062 of \u20622023 from 13 corporate-backed\u200d leadership committees, including those affiliated with Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), \u200cGerry Connolly (D-VA),\u200d and Sara \u200bJacobs (D-CA), according to\u2064 filings.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Pappas received\u200c over $31,000 during the second quarter from 17 Democratic leadership\u200c committees funded\u2063 by corporate PACs, according to\u200b a\u200d Washington\u2063 Examiner analysis of disclosures.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u2064 Rep. Jahana \u200dHayes (D-CT), who\u200b said she wouldn&#8217;t \u200btake \u2063corporate PAC\u200d dollars, received \u2062$5,000 in\u200d May from Home \u200dDepot&#8217;s\u2064 committee \u200cand\u200b $1,000 apiece from PACs \u2064for\u200c Voya\u200c Financial and \u200cVerizon in\u2063 June.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. \u200bSeth Magaziner (D-RI) accepted $22,000 combined in quarter two\u200b from \u200b15 corporate PACs, including Visa, Verizon,\u2063 AT&#038;T, \u2062and\u200d General Dynamics. The \u200dcongressman has promised\u2063 to\u2064 stand up to\u200b &#8220;corporate\u2064 special\u2062 interests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Campaigns \u2062for Golden, \u200cLevin, Pappas, Hayes, \u2062and \u200dMagaziner did\u200d not return requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Democrats who pledged to reject corporate PAC money received significant donations in Q2 2023 from committees funded by major corporations. Reps. Jared Golden (D-ME), Mike Levin (D-CA), and Chris Pappas (D-NH), who supported the Ban Corporate PACs Act, accepted these contributions despite their previous stance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1977052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977051","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=1977051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1977052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}