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An anti-tax group funded primarily by billionaires has emerged as one of the biggest backers of the Republican lawmakers who sought to overturn the US election results, according to an analysis by the Guardian.
The Club for Growths biggest beneficiaries include Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz, the two Republican senators who led the effort to invalidate Joe Bidens electoral victory, and the newly elected far-right gun-rights activist Lauren Boebert, a QAnon conspiracy theorist. Boebert was criticized last week for tweeting about the House speaker Nancy Pelosis location during the attack on the Capitol, even after lawmakers were told not to do so by police.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/15/trump-republicans-election-defeat-club-for-growth?utm_term=035e00e44c12c8db6f6e8f882f93cea7&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email
exboyfil
(17,862 posts)dalton99a
(81,406 posts)Public records show the Club for Growths largest funders are the billionaire Richard Uihlein, the Republican co-founder of the Uline shipping supply company in Wisconsin, and Jeffrey Yass, the co-founder of Susquehanna International Group, an options trading group based in Philadelphia that also owns a sports betting company in Dublin.
While Uihlein and Yass have kept a lower profile than other billionaire donors such as Michael Bloomberg and the late Sheldon Adelson, their backing of the Club for Growth has helped to transform the organization from one traditionally known as an anti-regulatory and anti-tax pro-business pressure group to one that backs some of the most radical and anti-democratic Republican lawmakers in Congress.
Heres the thing about the hyper wealthy. They believe that their hyper-wealth grants them the ability to not be accountable. And that is not the case. If youve made billions of dollars, good on you. But that doesnt make you any less accountable for funding anti-democratic or authoritarian candidates and movements, said Reed Galen, a former Republican strategist who co-founded the Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump campaigners.
Maru Kitteh
(28,323 posts)at the very, very least drag it into the light of day and/or hopefully hobble it greatly?
Achievable action.