Donald McGahn...get to know him

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McGahn’s background includes serving as counsel and ethics advisor to former Rep. Tom Delay (R-TX), who was indicted for conspiring to launder corporate cash into campaign contributions for Delay’s PAC. In 2008, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, a veteran denigrator of campaign finance reform, urged George W. Bush to appoint McGahn as chair of the Federal Election Commission. With the possible exception of the Supreme Court, no public body has been more responsible for keeping our campaign finance system a cesspool than the FEC under McGahn’s leadership.

It was McGahn’s FEC that ensured that the Court’s rulings for Citizens United and against the McCain-Feingold reforms would gut the regulation of money in politics, thereby paving the way for super PACs and for bogus “social welfare” nonprofits like Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS. When a Washington lawyer called McGahn “one of the most consequential commissioners the FEC’s ever had,” Democratic FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub commented, “He was consequential like a sledgehammer was consequential. He did his best to undermine the law.” Since his tenure at the FEC, according to Forbes, McGahn worked for the Koch Brothers’ “Freedom Partners Chambers of Commerce,” which “has given grants worth a total of $236 million to right-wing political groups like the tea party.” Excellent training for joining the Trump campaign as its attorney.

http://billmoyers.com/story/like-kryptonite-campaign-finance-reform/

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I refuse to accept that this should be our new normal.

[Horse with no Name]

1. I imagine having a Dicktator will grow old even for the partisan faithful

BUT there are more of US than there are of them.
I am a pacifist but I am going to arm myself. I never thought that would happen.
We live in strange times.

[SamKnause]

2. I fear we are going to be FORCED to accept all that is coming.

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3. I share your fear