Come On Man! -- Joe Manchin accepts donation from Fox News PAC

[TheBlackAdder]

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I might be late to the station with this one, but. . .

A corporate political action committee for the parent company of Fox News, funded partially by the Murdoch family, donated to the 2024 re-election campaign of Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, campaign filings show.

This article originally appeared at Salon.

A staunch moderate, Manchin's vote is pivotal in the evenly-divided chamber — and the West Virginia senator has for much of the year used his position to stymie legislation on a number of liberal priorities, instead committing himself to a bipartisan approach criticized roundly within Democratic circles in Washington. In particular, progressives have been hammering Manchin over his support for the filibuster, a major procedural hurdle standing in the way of the legislative agenda favored by President Joe Biden and the vast majority of a currently Democratic-controlled Congress.

The $1,500 donation on June 27 appears to be the first to Manchin from the Fox Corp. PAC, which according to the watchdog organization Open Secrets is funded largely by right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his son, Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch, as well as other executives at the Fox Corporation. Manchin raised more than $1.4 million during the second quarter of this year, the filings show.

Manchin also received donations from a number of large corporations, including Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson, T-Mobile, At&T/Warner Media, Honeywell and FedEx.

The Murdoch-backed donation comes as Manchin is under increasing siege by a variety of right-wing groups, including a high-profile pressure campaign by the Koch network's Americans for Prosperity and the Heritage Foundation's advocacy arm, Heritage Action.


More at the jump:
https://www.rawstory.com/joe-manchin-fox-news-filibuster/

What happened to the days when politicians would tell certain contributors to eat it?

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[JohnSJ]

1. So what. At least he has a D after his name, and does anyone really think West Virginia will

elect a progressive?

Nina Turner is accepting lobbyist money


https://www.thedailybeast.com/dem-star-nina-turner-blows-pledge-not-to-take-lobbyist-money

Until election funding laws are changed, this is a fact of life

[Blue Owl]

2. My name is Rupert Murdoch, millionaire. I own a Manchin and a yacht.

[TheBlackAdder]

5. Oh, shit! That's amazing! 🤣

[berniesandersmittens]

11. Ha!

Bada bing!

[OrlandoDem2]

3. The same Joe Manchin blocking filibuster reform, and therefore voter protection?

[RockRaven]

4. Get 52 or 53 D's in the Senate and Manchin can take contributions from whoever, it won't matter.

Take all the energy or dissatisfaction or anger about what any D is doing wrong in the Senate or House and employ it towards getting other D's elected in other states/districts with Repuke incumbents.

[Fiendish Thingy]

6. Without passing voting rights legislation, Dems lose their majorities for a decade or more. Nt

[uponit7771]

10. +1, this simple fact isn't being stated enough. We can't GOTV laws against voting and the response

... so far is we'll brute force GQP again in flip districts.

That's whistling past the grave yard at best

[quakerboy]

7. Nah.

If we get more we need to just show him the door. He stands at the front and gives others cover for their malfeasance. in a 53 situation, he will vote with the R's to give them "bipartisan" to add to their attacks

But the longer he is able to prevent us from protecting the votes, our chances of getting more are dropping. We need some LBJ style work to save the country, it seems

[uponit7771]

9. There's no out organizing laws against voting

[Kablooie]

8. The fact that Fox wants to donate to him says it all.

They love the fact that Manchin will ensure Democraticats never get a majority again. The US will belong to Republicans permanently and there will be nothing we will be able to do about it.

Hell, of I were them that would be worth a damn good donation.