Originally Posted by
CitizenBBN
Yep. In Kentucky McGrath is completely funded and her platform handed to her by mega-interests from New York and California. This election cycle more than any other has been an attempt to carpetbag one party's way into a majority.
It's legal, but it calls into question the idea of representative government. Money has always had that negative influence, and it has grown exponentially since the beginning of the postwar area. In SC Graham faces a candidate with what will likely end up close to $100 million in outside money, just for one Senate seat.
And here's a news flash: when people spend that kind of money to get their guy in that seat, they aren't doing it with the idea that the Senator then gets to vote his conscience. Just like how Burisma didn't hire the son of the US Vice President b/c of a mandated diversity policy.