DNC reverses ban on fossil fuel PAC donations

[Mike Rows His Boat]

DNC reverses ban on fossil fuel donations

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Friday evening saying it welcomes donations from fossil fuel industry workers and “employers’ political action committees.”

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Christine Pelosi, a DNC member who co-authored the June resolution, offered an amendment to Perez’s measure that would strike the words “employers’ political action committees" to discourage donations from corporate PACs.

Pelosi said removing that language would reaffirm that Democratic Party’s “commitment to overturn Citizens United and banning corporate PAC money.”

But the motion to amend the language proposed by Pelosi failed, 4 to 28. The DNC’s executive committee voted to approve the original resolution, 30 to 2.

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/401356-dnc-passes-resolution-on-fossil-fuel-donations

[shanny]

1. ...

[lapucelle]

2. Isn't that the same reasoning behind AOC's acceptance of JP Morgan Chase contributions?

DNC Chairman Tom Perez sponsored Friday’s resolution that allows the committee to accept contributions from “workers, including those in energy and related industries, who organize and donate to Democratic candidates individually or through their unions’ or employers’ political action committees.”


https://www.opensecrets.org/races/contributors?cycle=2018&id=NY14&spec=N

https://www.opensecrets.org/races/industries?cycle=2018&id=NY14&spec=N

[Uncle Joe]

3. Now why would they do this?

What does employers' PAC money have to do with labor?


Thanks for the thread Mike Rows His Boat

[Mike Rows His Boat]

5. And some wonder why the "left wing" of the Dem party are restless. eom

[lagomorph777]

4. Koch addicts

[Vinca]

6. I say milk the suckers. Take them for all they're worth and then vote green energy.

[Spartacus101]

7. A Paltry Sum?

This one slipped by me, probably because it didn't get a lot of attention from the MSM, or I was hunkered down waiting for a heatwave and firestorm to pass over......

Huffington Post:

"Oil and gas companies spent a record $7.6 million on Democratic races in 2016. That’s a pittance compared to the $53.7 million in direct donations to Republicans, who received 88 percent of the industry’s contributions during that election cycle. Republicans have taken in 89 percent of the industry’s donations so far in 2018. That figure rises to 95 percent of the coal sector’s largesse this year."

This IS a tangled web...but is the measly 7.6 million (frame of reference here) worth it? Easier to not limit individual worker rank-and-file contribs while finding out some way to exclude PACS and The Big Boys contribs.

Personally, I don't like individuals or groups taking bold stands in public, then back-watering on them with minimum publicity. It smacks of moral cowardice, lack of backbone and Machiavellian thinking, not to mention intellectual dishonesty. If you were wrong, say so, and just as loudly as you did when you proclaimed your original position.



https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dnc-fossil-fuel-donations_us_5b6dddd4e4b0530743c9ca67