Billionaires backed Republicans who sought to reverse US election results

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Source: The Guardian

Billionaires backed Republicans who sought to reverse US election results

Guardian analysis shows Club for Growth has spent $20m supporting 42 rightwing lawmakers who voted to invalidate Biden victory

Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington
@skirchy
Fri 15 Jan 2021 10.00 GMT

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 Growth has supported the campaigns of 42 of the rightwing Republicans senators and members of Congress who voted last week to challenge US election results, doling out an estimated $20m to directly and indirectly support their campaigns in 2018 and 2020, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.

About 30 of the Republican hardliners received more than $100,000 in indirect and direct support from the group.

The Club for Growth’s biggest beneficiaries include Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz, the two Republican senators who led the effort to invalidate Joe Biden’s electoral victory, and the newly elected far-right gun-rights activist Lauren Boebert, a QAnon conspiracy theorist. Boebert was criticised last week for tweeting about the House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s location during the attack on the Capitol, even after lawmakers were told not to do so by police.

Public records show the Club for Growth’s 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.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/15/trump-republicans-election-defeat-club-for-growth

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1. Citizens United, once again doing what it was engineered to do.

[Raven123]

2. Since we can't get citizens united overturned, get rid of PACs

Make them contribute in their own name.

[KPN]

9. And eliminate 501(c)(3) for churches. They are

that contribute to election campaigns.

[HariSeldon]

12. I'm not a lawyer, but

I haven't ever seen anyone saying that the "personhood" of corporations is Constitutional. Therefore, all it takes to remove such, which is the basis of Citizens United, is for Congress to pass a law that corporations are NOT people for any reading of the Constitution, and the courts will have a lot of re-figuring to do.

[CentralMass]

3. The money funding the insurrection .

[onetexan]

5. Bingo!!

[OldBaldy1701E]

6. Exactly (n/t)

[iscooterliberally]

4. Tax billionaires back down to the multimillionaire level

We don't need billionaires in our country when so many are living in poverty.

[OldBaldy1701E]

7. Yes

It is because of the tweaking done to our society by those selfsame billionaires that has created some (if not most) of the poverty in this country. No one needs ten cars while people are dying in the streets. And, all that money they want for military and police? It ain't to protect you, I can tell you that. Tax them appropriately. They have more, they can share more. Otherwise, there is the door.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

8. In 71 years I have never known of any attempts to overturn the result of the General Election.

I guess the billionaires feel that since they own the president and the vast majority of Republicans at the federal and state level, they can do whatever they want to do. Maybe they can -- look at Trump's tax cut and his appointment of more than 200 business-friendly judges, no matter how unqualified.

[KPN]

10. You forgot they also own something like 90

percent of the nation’s wealth — much of it made possible by your tax dollars.

[nam78_two]

11. These cynical creeps have no one to blame but themselves

Given enough rope apparently assholes do hang themselves.

No point in blaming ecoterrorists, feminazis, antifa, blm, glbt people, atheists, scientists or any other group. This was what they fed and it has come back to bite these cut-throat capitalists and "meritocrats" (and obviously how shall I put ? "Race and gender realists". The smiley face was an accident) in the back. I don't like terms like white or other racist supremacy, religious extremism etc. quite as much as the more subtle propaganda of "race and gender realism" that marries crassly racist, sexist, classist, extremist ideologies with a socially Darwinistic type of "meritocracy".



Richard Spencer-this totally lame architect of the alt right was smart enough to cynically jump ship just in time. The guy is just lame. And these people are lamer.
I should not even mention people like Spencer as he is a jerk who should get no attention at all, but that post about nazis vanishing into the crowd from a few weeks ago actually had a good point.

He is now doing his classic troll thing-tainting liberals by associating himself with them, while being exactly what he always was. It is in no way the sort of genuine change of heart some people have had. He really is a bad person.