Mitch McConnell warns GOP senators they’ll face ‘incoming’ if they back Hawley bill to limit corporate giving in campaigns | CNN Politics
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(CNN) - Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell bluntly warned GOP senators in a private meeting not to sign on to a bill from Sen. Josh Hawley aimed at limiting corporate money bankrolling high-powered outside groups, telling them that many of them won their seats thanks to the powerful super PAC the Kentucky Republican has long controlled.

Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell bluntly warned Republican senators in a private meeting not to sign on to a bill from Sen. Josh Hawley aimed at limiting corporate money bankrolling high-powered outside groups, telling them that many of them won their seats thanks to the powerful super PAC the Kentucky Republican has long controlled.

    • yata
      441·
      11 months ago

      He doesn’t though. It is all culture war posturing:

      “Let’s get one thing straight,” Hawley bellowed this summer, “Corporations are not people.” The crowd, this one gathered in Washington for the social conservative Faith and Freedom Coalition summit, barely stirred. But then they erupted when the populist senator continued, “I’ve got news for these woke corporations: We are not going to surrender this nation to the cultural Marxists in the C-suite.”

      • jballsEnglish
        8·
        11 months ago

        The cultural Marxists in the C-suite

        Wtf does that even mean? It’s just a nonsensical jumble of buzzwords thrown together. The crowd cheered for that?

      • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        Must be an ulterior motive, like corporations being people makes anti abortion legislation impossible to write in legaleaze or similar.

    • eric@lemmy.world
      91·
      11 months ago

      It pisses me off that I agree with Hawley about anything, but here we are.

      • Salamendacious@lemmy.worldOP
        8·
        11 months ago

        I think it’s always important to remember that people like him aren’t evil incarnate they just have radically different worldviews, the majority of which I vehemently disagree with, but there’s always some commonality out there somewhere. Cory Booker is working with Hawley on child labor prevention.