I find it interesting that we think it is corrupting for a corporation to give me money which I then use to buy ads, but not corrupting for the same corporation to buy its own ads through Citizens United.
Whitehouse critiques the perceived hypocrisy in corporate spending on political ads.
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The allegations against Graham Platner in the Politico story are extremely serious and I am withdrawing my support.
We're actually somewhat generous about letting [the oil companies] keep half of the excess profits, but we want at least half of it to go back.
Seems like a lot of nothing. I mean, the only one who had anything to say that seemed ‘unsettling’ was a woman who works for right-wing political operations.
We should send any big windfall for Big Oil back to the hardworking people who paid for it at the gas pump.
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