{"id":2211291,"date":"2024-04-02T11:31:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T15:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/baldwin-rakes-in-corporate-pac-money-while-campaigning-against-corporations\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T11:31:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T15:31:30","slug":"baldwin-rakes-in-corporate-pac-money-while-campaigning-against-corporations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/baldwin-rakes-in-corporate-pac-money-while-campaigning-against-corporations\/","title":{"rendered":"Baldwin receives corporate PAC funds despite anti-corporate stance"},"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%2Fbaldwin-rakes-in-corporate-pac-money-while-campaigning-against-corporations%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=2211291&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>Democratic Senator \u200cTammy Baldwin\u200c is running for reelection in Wisconsin, despite receiving substantial corporate donations, \u2062including over\u200c $350,000 from companies like Amazon, Google, Honeywell, and Lockheed Martin. Baldwin&#8217;s\u2062 anti-corporate platform clashes\u2063 with \u200dher\u200d acceptance of corporate PAC funds. Her rival, Eric\u2064 Hovde, \u200chas pledged to reject special interest\u2063 donations. The donations \u2064raise questions about \u200cBaldwin&#8217;s campaign \u2062message and \u200cfunding sources.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Amazon, Google, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin have poured over $350,000 into Wisconsin Senate candidate\u2019s coffers<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tSen. Tammy Baldwin (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), who is campaigning for reelection as an opponent of corporate greed and political donations, has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars from corporate political action committees since her last election.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Amazon, Google, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, and other conglomerates have poured over $350,000 into Baldwin\u2019s coffers since 2018, according to Federal Election Commission records.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The donations are at odds with Baldwin\u2019s campaign message, in which she vows to combat special interest political spending and to take on &#8220;big corporations and powerful special interests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Baldwin\u2019s record of corporate contributions also contrasts with her likely Republican opponent, multimillionaire businessman Eric Hovde, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gKPL0eRq1qs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v%3DgKPL0eRq1qs&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1712094023548000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1BNG10Kv8qsK19QHbOyV4K\">vowed<\/a> to forgo special interest donations during his campaign.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I don\u2019t need their special interest money and I won\u2019t take it,&#8221; said Hovde in an ad on Friday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A review of FEC records shows that Baldwin has accepted large donations from numerous corporate PACs since she was last reelected in 2018.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The donations include at least $25,000 from Amazon. Baldwin has recently been <a href=\"https:\/\/wisconsinexaminer.com\/briefs\/baldwin-other-us-senators-press-amazon-on-delivery-drivers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/wisconsinexaminer.com\/briefs\/baldwin-other-us-senators-press-amazon-on-delivery-drivers\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1712094023548000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0JtR2tiKVQr4nLbOd0_nVX\">critical<\/a> of Amazon, accusing the company of mistreating its delivery drivers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Baldwin has also taken $29,000 from Comcast Corporation and NBCUniversal\u2019s PAC; $33,500 from General Dynamics Corporation\u2019s PAC; $26,000 from Lockheed Martin\u2019s PAC; $35,000 from Hewlett Packard\u2019s PAC; $30,000 from Honeywell\u2019s PAC; and over $15,000 from Northrop Grumman\u2019s PAC.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Baldwin did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On the campaign trail and in social media posts, Baldwin has presented herself as an opponent of corporate and special interests.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In the past few weeks, Baldwin has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorBaldwin\/status\/1770234762839380479\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorBaldwin\/status\/1770234762839380479&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1712094023548000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1-qBx3TEIhg-W19Xb5vZGu\">blamed<\/a> inflation on &#8220;big\u00a0corporations\u00a0and their price-gouging tactics.&#8221;\u00a0The senator\u2019s campaign website claims that &#8220;special interests, billionaire megadonors, and shady Super PACs have always made beating Tammy their top priority&#8221; and &#8220;have flooded Wisconsin with millions in outside spending against her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;No matter how much secret money these special interests spend, Tammy will continue doing right by Wisconsinites and work to reduce the influence of special interest money in our government and our elections,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tammybaldwin.com\/issues\/special-interests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.tammybaldwin.com\/issues\/special-interests\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1712094023548000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0g_VzWk0swHvLde8SM-k3p\">said<\/a> Baldwin\u2019s campaign website.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The senator has also blamed rising grocery prices on corporate greed rather than government-induced inflation, echoing the position of the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Big corporations are raising prices on middle class families &#038; taking in record profits\u2014all while hiding behind inflation,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorBaldwin\/status\/1762631551496454308\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorBaldwin\/status\/1762631551496454308&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1712094023548000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0UF05Kj1wGyjVosmyeXJjx\">wrote<\/a> Baldwin on X, formerly Twitter, in February.\t<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In March, she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorBaldwin\/status\/1770234762839380479\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorBaldwin\/status\/1770234762839380479&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1712094023548000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1-qBx3TEIhg-W19Xb5vZGu\">noted<\/a> that &#8220;grocery products [are] getting smaller but the price [remains] the same,&#8221; a shift that she chalked up to &#8220;big corporations and their price-gouging tactics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"m_7885219722675357982gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b071814-7fff-81be-59d5-22be4d94f51c\">The Wisconsin Senate race is expected to be one of the most competitive in the country and could decide party control of the upper chamber. An Emerson University poll <a href=\"https:\/\/emersoncollegepolling.com\/wisconsin-2024-trump-46-biden-43\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/emersoncollegepolling.com\/wisconsin-2024-trump-46-biden-43\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1712094023548000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1xKXklzaqfdbEc7g1bSc9C\">shows<\/a> Baldwin leading Hovde by just three points in the race.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tammy Baldwin, a Democratic candidate for Wisconsin Senate, has reportedly received over $350,000 in campaign contributions from corporations like Amazon, Google, Honeywell, and Lockheed Martin. 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