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Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is holding back no punches, blasting the Supreme Court for its ruling in the McCutcheon v. FEC case. “Freedom of speech, in my view, does not mean the freedom to buy the United States government,” Sanders said. At question was a law preventing individuals from contributing more than $123,000 to individual candidates […]
Entertainer Harry Belafonte attacked the conservative billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch on Sunday at a church service by suggesting they influence those who “would belong to the Ku Klux Klan.” At the service he attended while campaigning for Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio, the 86 year-old Belafonte said the Tea-Party-supporting moguls […]
Roger Stone, a veteran Republican political consultant, published a story last week on his website The Stone Zone accusing the billionaire Koch brothers of purchasing Paul Ryan’s nomination. According to Stone, the Koch brothers secured Ryan’s nomination this July by promising to hand over an additional $100 million towards “independent expentiture” for the Republican presidential campaign. “I’ve waited a […]
David Koch has left New York’s American Museum of Natural History Board in the wake of mounting pressure. Conservative billionaire David H. Koch has resigned from the board of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after having served for 23 years. As The New York Times reports, Koch “has donated some $23 […]
Sarah Silverman introduced Bernie Sanders to a Los Angeles crowd of around 27,000 people on August 10, 2015. Silverman warmed up the crowd by reclaiming the words “values” and “morals,” words she says “have been co-opted by people who wear them as shrouds to justify terrible things.” Silverman talked about Sanders’ consistency and how “he […]