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(Hansjorg Wyss)
Front Page Magazine and the David Horowitz Freedom Center have been following the impact of Hansjorg Wyss, a Swiss citizen and a leftist megadonor, on American politics for quite a while. Earlier this year we tracked his reach even to West Virginia.
While foreigners can’t directly donate to candidates, they can donate to 501(c)(4)s and considering the impact that they have on elections, that amounts to much the same thing.
Now some members of Congress are talking about closing the foreign C4 loophole.
Rep. Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) chair of the House Administration Committee, is introducing legislation to ban such groups from contributing to political committees for four years if they accept foreign donations. He also wants to bar foreign nationals from giving to state ballot initiatives.
“American elections are for American citizens,” Steil told Axios, ahead of a hearing his committee is holding in Atlanta today on election integrity. “Yet foreign nationals still find ways to influence American elections.”
“The American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act will close loopholes that foreign nationals are exploiting to funnel money to super PACs or ballot initiatives,” he said.
While the immediate issue is Wyss, foreign donors from a variety of countries can influence our politics that way.
Conservative groups are zeroing in on Wyss as a poster child for how wealthy foreign billionaires can influence U.S. elections, alleging that he has pumped $475 million into the U.S. political system.
They can and they have.
At this point even 501(c)(3)s are closely involved in U.S. politics, never mind C4s. Your average major lefty nonprofit has a C3, for tax-exempt funds, and a C4, for more direct political involvement, and may have a PAC too. Money goes in the different ends and all of it ends up influencing politics. Some states are stepping forward to block foreign money on a statewide level. West Virginia is one such example. But a federal ban is important because some lefty states won’t do it on their own.
Cheap hoaxes are exposed immediately.
Depriving Democrats of the cash required for adequate hoax preparation and distribution abridges their Constitutional right to expression.
Cheaper hoaxes are exposed immediately.
Depriving Democrats of the cash required for quality hoax preparation and distribution abridges their Constitutional right to free expression.
WTF? Lack of an edit/preview function strikes.
Follow the money trail. Learn who your future tyrants will be. Or you might want to do something about securing the votes of legal voters so THEIR votes for THEIR Representatives in THEIR government would not be overwhelmed by fraudulent votes & those who count the votes would not determine who “represents” the people in the government. Now that the SCOTUS has denied US voters the right to have THEIR elections for THEIR Representatives in THEIR government (as was the way in the old USSR) we cannot have a Constitutional & Representative government unless we regain CONTROL of the voting process.
There once was a nation run by traitors,
The elite there were real operators,
Attacking the Constitution,
With foreign institutions,
But it will all be cool once they are dictators.
America needs to pul out of the United Nations and move the whole rotten bunch to Moscow and make them solve their own problems we can help out after a Natural Disaster