Don't buy the propoganda coming from the DLC lately

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4. They never loved us anyway.

http://billmoyers.com/2014/05/01/on-the-money-political-mad-men/

Outside political groups’ spending soars in 2014 elections –> Super PACs, trade associations, unions and other groups that are independent of candidates, have already spent four times more on the 2014 congressional races than they had by this point in the 2010 midterms, according to Wall Street Journal reporter Brody Mullins. In hard numbers, that’s $60 million, compared with $15 million over the same period in 2010. “What makes those figures even more remarkable,” writes Mullins, “is that they don’t include the millions of dollars spent this election by the biggest outside group…” — the Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity. AFP, he writes, doesn’t have to disclose its spending on TV ads if they are, as it claims, about “issues,” and not designed to influence elections.

How 2014 is shaping up to be the darkest money election to date –> In this week’s senate committee hearing, Dollars and Sense: How Undisclosed Money and Post-McCutcheon Campaign Finance Will Affect 2014 and Beyond, Senator Angus King (I-ME) held up a chart reflecting the explosion of secret funding, or “dark money,” spent in recent elections. To see that graph up close, read Robert Maguire’s report on OpenSecrets.org. He writes that the 2014 midterms are on track to be the darkest election in modern history. As an example of what that means for individual races, he describes an ad campaign run by Freedom Partners targeting Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley, a contender in Iowa’s US senate race. Freedom Partners (a funding hub for the Koch Brothers and their friends) is a 501(c)(6) trade association that isn’t required to disclose its donors to the public. So when Freedom Partners produces ads falsely accused Braley of taking “tens of thousands from his friends in the health insurance industry” who “stand to make billions” from Obamacare, viewers have no way to know who is actually bankrolling the lies.

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Wall Street Republicans’ dark secret: Hillary Clinton 2016 –> Politico’s Ben White and Maggie Haberman polled two dozen GOP donors, financial executives and their Washington lobbyists to determine who they would back for president in 2016. While few have lined up for a candidate on the record, White and Haberman found many are waiting to see whether Jeb Bush will save the Republican establishment from tea party populists. But if Bush doesn’t throw his hat in the ring, the reporters learned that there is a “consistent – and unusual – consolation candidate” in Hillary Clinton. Her moderate track record on taxation and financial regulation as a New York senator make her an unthreatening alternative to the likes of Rand Paul or Ted Cruz.