{"id":1997812,"date":"2023-08-11T13:03:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T17:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/while-schumer-decried-dark-money-pac-tied-to-him-raked-in-81m-from-secret-donors\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T13:05:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T17:05:07","slug":"while-schumer-decried-dark-money-pac-tied-to-him-raked-in-81m-from-secret-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/while-schumer-decried-dark-money-pac-tied-to-him-raked-in-81m-from-secret-donors\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer slams &#8216;dark money&#8217;, but his PAC collects $81M from undisclosed donors."},"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\">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%2Fwhile-schumer-decried-dark-money-pac-tied-to-him-raked-in-81m-from-secret-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=1997812&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>Sen. \u200bChuck Schumer&#8217;s \u200bHypocrisy on Dark Money<\/h2>\n<p>Sen. Chuck Schumer may be sponsoring\u200b legislation that targets\u200b a super\u2063 PAC\u200d that engages\u2064 in just the type of behavior the\u200d Senate majority leaders claims to disdain.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Democrat has\u2062 co-sponsored the <strong>DISCLOSE\u2063 Act<\/strong> that he claimed will\u2064 \u201cfight \u200bthe cancer of dark money in our elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Senate Majority PAC \u2014 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/while-schumer-decried-dark-money-pac-tied-to-him-raked-in-81m-from-secret-donors\/\" title=\"Schumer slams 'dark money', but his PAC collects M from undisclosed donors.\">political action committee closely aligned<\/a> with \u200dSchumer \u2014 has \u2062\u201caccepted over $81\u2064 million between 2021 and 2023\u200c from Majority Forward, a dark money nonprofit group boosting Democratic candidates,\u201d according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/chuck-schumer-pac-dark-money-group-majority-forward#:~:text=At%20the%20same%20time%2C%20the,according%20to%20campaign%20finance%20disclosures.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Examiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I\u2019m announcing that the \u2062Senate\u200c will vote this week \u200bon the DISCLOSE Act.<\/p>\n<p>This \u2064bill would \u2063fight the cancer of dark money \u2062in \u2062our\u2064 elections \u2064and require dark money groups \u200cto report campaign contributions.<\/p>\n<p>Americans deserve to \u2062know who\u2019s spending billions to sway our\u2064 democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSchumer\/status\/1572001960143749122?\">September 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Schumer\u2019s\u2063 rhetoric on the subject has implied that \u201cdark money\u201d \u2063funds only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/longtime-democratic-politician-activist-announces-switch-republican-party-enough\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republican Party<\/a> politics, such\u2063 as in this tweet\u200b from earlier in 2022:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The examples of MLK, \u2062of John Lewis\u200b give us strength and show us sometimes the only right option \u2064is to \u200cmove forward<\/p>\n<p>With Trump<br \/>\nhis Big Lie<br \/>\nJan. \u200b6<br \/>\nvoter suppression<br \/>\ndark \u200dmoney interests fueling today\u2019s\u200c GOP<\/p>\n<p>This\u200b is a fight for the soul\u2063 of America<\/p>\n<p>And we will not\u200d shy away \u2063from it<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Schumer\u2063 (@SenSchumer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSchumer\/status\/1484221424881573892?\">January 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, \u2063Majority Forward has provided the Democrat-supporting Senate \u200cMajority PAC $136 million since 2015, according to\u200d federal records cited by the Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>And the two organizations are more closely\u200d aligned than even that figure \u2062would imply, according\u2063 to the Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMajority Forward has\u200d counted its president as Senate Majority PAC head J.B. Poersch, and the\u200b two entities share personnel \u2064and office space,\u201d\u2064 the outlet reported. \u201cMoreover, Senate Majority\u2064 PAC has been paid by\u200d Majority Forward\u200d for insurance, IT security,\u2063 and salaries, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-cheri-bustos-diverts-post-office-aid-cash-to-own-campaign\/\" title=\"Dem Cheri Bustos Diverts Post Office Aid Cash to Own Campaign\">campaign finance disclosures show<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill would require super \u2063PACs and other nonprofit organizations to disclose \u2062the names of any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/doj-drops-campaign-finance-charge-dem-megadonor-alleged-fraudster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">donors<\/a> \u200dwho give them more \u200dthan \u200d$10,000.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents, however, argue that the bill is unnecessary, even if \u200cit does target some of \u200cSchumer\u2019s own party supporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing wrong with so-called dark\u200d money \u2014 the American\u200b political\u2064 system owes its existence to anonymous political speech,\u201d Tom Jones, president of \u200cthe conservative\u2063 American \u200cAccountability Foundation watchdog \u2064group, told the Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is\u2064 wrong\u2062 \u2014\u2063 and frankly embarrassing \u2014\u2062 is Senators Schumer and Whitehouse blathering on about the boogeyman of dark money one day and using it to prop up their majority the next,\u201d\u200d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, sponsored by Rhode Island Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gasbag-gop-opponent-uses-kavanaugh-footage-bury-senator-whitehouse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sheldon Whitehouse<\/a> and co-sponsored by the other 47\u200c Democrats and all three of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-report-showcases-just-tense-things-gotten-sinema-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">independents<\/a> who typically caucus\u200c with them, claims its purpose to be \u201cTo amend the Federal Election \u2064Campaign\u2063 Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements \u200dfor\u2063 corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other \u2063entities, and for \u2062other purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Its full \u200cname, in typical D.C. fashion, is the \u201cDemocracy\u200c Is Strengthened \u2064by Casting\u200d Light On \u200cSpending in Elections Act \u200cof 2023,\u201d though it \u2063is\u2062 generally simply\u200c referred to as the \u201cDISCLOSE Act of 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The full text of the DISCLOSE Act\u200d is available below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal;display: block\"><a style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View Disclose Act on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/664391523\/Disclose-Act#from_embed\">Disclose Act<\/a> by <a style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View The Western Journal's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/480928840\/The-Western-Journal#from_embed\">The Western Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats\u2063 claim to \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chuck-schumer-tied-pac-took-81m-from-dark-money-group-as-he-decried-special-interests\/\" title=\"Schumer-linked PAC received M from 'dark money' group while criticizing special interests.\">hate dark money<\/a>, but cycle \u200bafter cycle,\u200d they line their\u200b pockets with it to fund \u200ctheir radical and\u200c out-of-touch \u200ccandidates,\u201d National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Tate Mitchell\u2064 told the Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>The post \u2063 <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/schumer-decried-dark-money-pac-tied-raked-81m-secret-donors\/\">While Schumer \u200dDecried &#8216;Dark Money&#8217;, PAC \u2063Tied to Him Raked In \u200c$81M from Secret Donors<\/a> appeared first\u2064 on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, is supporting the DISCLOSE Act to combat the influence of dark money in elections. This legislation aims to address the behavior of a super PAC that Senate majority leaders criticize. 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