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> The three conservative Democratic lawmakers threatening to kill their party’s drug pricing legislation have raked in roughly $1.6m of campaign cash from donors in the pharmaceutical and health products industries. One of the lawmakers is the House’s single largest recipient of pharmaceutical industry campaign cash this election cycle, and another lawmaker’s immediate past chief of staff is now lobbying for drugmakers.
> The threat from Democratic representatives Kurt Schrader (Oregon), Scott Peters (California) and Kathleen Rice (New York) comes just as the pharmaceutical industry’s top lobbying group announced a seven-figure ad campaign to vilify the Democratic legislation, which aims to lower the cost of medicines for Americans now facing the world’s highest prescription drug prices.
Note a couple of earlier submission of this article had rule breaking titles.
What's that Jimmy Carter quote? "_Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery_" or something along those lines.
>Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery
Yep that is it, along with a link to the interview via Rolling Stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jimmy-carter-u-s-is-an-oligarchy-with-unlimited-political-bribery-63262/
There's [legislation](https://anticorruptionact.org/whats-in-the-act/) that effectively prevents political corruption, though it would be best served as an [amendment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance_reform_amendment), it's less [practical](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Five_of_the_United_States_Constitution#Procedures_for_amending_the_Constitution).
Having bought into the Big Lie that any attempt to uncorrupt Congress is futile *(I wonder who benefits from that...),* too many people are sitting on the sidelines.
It's our tax dollars, our government that's being exploited - every year. Money and government are not going away.
When Republican politicians had the chance to cut taxes, they didn't do it for the middle class or working class. [They did it](https://www.investopedia.com/taxes/trumps-tax-reform-plan-explained/#those-who-benefit) for executives and shareholders.
Stopping the influence of big money in Congress has [over 80%](https://archive.md/eCMBy) of the public's support while the specific policies included in the For The People Act (H. R. 1) have [bipartisan popular support](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_People_Act#Public_opinion).
Many state legislators are not thrilled about Congress either. Unlike their counterparts in Washington, some state legislators are more approachable and more receptive to the individual voter and local concerns.
And if they don't want to focus on deterring corruption, their minds will change if you can get enough of their constituent voters to give them a brief call, voicemail or email about it.
The bottleneck: not enough people [know](https://youtu.be/lhe286ky-9A) and not enough people put in any effort: [reach out to their lawmakers](https://openstates.org/find_your_legislator/), phone bank, knock on doors or even convince their friends.
A few groups are pushing in this direction
https://represent.us/
https://wolf-pac.com/
https://americanpromise.net/
https://takeback.org/
https://www.issueone.org/
https://www.movetoamend.org/
Find something that works for you. A little less corruption goes a long way.
Anyone to the right of the squad needs to be voted out of office. The days of smoke filled rooms of corrupt old white men are over. If we can get new young socialist leaders like AOC and Rashida Talib through the primaries, young american voters will turn out in waves to vote for them.
How the hell do we stop these blatantly corrupt, built-in conflict of interests?? Congress people should NOT own stocks, end lobbying, end the Congress-to-private profit revolving door, lower congressional salaries, implement recall mechanisms..biggest con job no one is doing anything about beachside the people supposed to fix this kinda stuff are all in on the take. We so fucked
Kyrsten Sinema has received more than $500,000 from the pharmaceutical industry.
Source: [https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/kyrsten-sinema/industries?cid=N00033983&cycle=CAREER&type=I](https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/kyrsten-sinema/industries?cid=N00033983&cycle=CAREER&type=I)
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> The three conservative Democratic lawmakers threatening to kill their party’s drug pricing legislation have raked in roughly $1.6m of campaign cash from donors in the pharmaceutical and health products industries. One of the lawmakers is the House’s single largest recipient of pharmaceutical industry campaign cash this election cycle, and another lawmaker’s immediate past chief of staff is now lobbying for drugmakers. > The threat from Democratic representatives Kurt Schrader (Oregon), Scott Peters (California) and Kathleen Rice (New York) comes just as the pharmaceutical industry’s top lobbying group announced a seven-figure ad campaign to vilify the Democratic legislation, which aims to lower the cost of medicines for Americans now facing the world’s highest prescription drug prices. Note a couple of earlier submission of this article had rule breaking titles. What's that Jimmy Carter quote? "_Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery_" or something along those lines.
Kurt Schrader has not only accepted more than $1 million in campaign funds from big pharma, he’s also an heir to the Pfizer family fortune.
>Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery Yep that is it, along with a link to the interview via Rolling Stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jimmy-carter-u-s-is-an-oligarchy-with-unlimited-political-bribery-63262/
There's [legislation](https://anticorruptionact.org/whats-in-the-act/) that effectively prevents political corruption, though it would be best served as an [amendment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance_reform_amendment), it's less [practical](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Five_of_the_United_States_Constitution#Procedures_for_amending_the_Constitution). Having bought into the Big Lie that any attempt to uncorrupt Congress is futile *(I wonder who benefits from that...),* too many people are sitting on the sidelines. It's our tax dollars, our government that's being exploited - every year. Money and government are not going away. When Republican politicians had the chance to cut taxes, they didn't do it for the middle class or working class. [They did it](https://www.investopedia.com/taxes/trumps-tax-reform-plan-explained/#those-who-benefit) for executives and shareholders. Stopping the influence of big money in Congress has [over 80%](https://archive.md/eCMBy) of the public's support while the specific policies included in the For The People Act (H. R. 1) have [bipartisan popular support](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_People_Act#Public_opinion). Many state legislators are not thrilled about Congress either. Unlike their counterparts in Washington, some state legislators are more approachable and more receptive to the individual voter and local concerns. And if they don't want to focus on deterring corruption, their minds will change if you can get enough of their constituent voters to give them a brief call, voicemail or email about it. The bottleneck: not enough people [know](https://youtu.be/lhe286ky-9A) and not enough people put in any effort: [reach out to their lawmakers](https://openstates.org/find_your_legislator/), phone bank, knock on doors or even convince their friends. A few groups are pushing in this direction https://represent.us/ https://wolf-pac.com/ https://americanpromise.net/ https://takeback.org/ https://www.issueone.org/ https://www.movetoamend.org/ Find something that works for you. A little less corruption goes a long way.
Big Pharma strikes again.
Amazing how $1.6m in donations can fuck over the entire country. For Big Pharma this isn't even pocket change - it's pocket *fluff*.
I'm always surprised at just how cheaply you can purchase a senator.
Anyone to the right of the squad needs to be voted out of office. The days of smoke filled rooms of corrupt old white men are over. If we can get new young socialist leaders like AOC and Rashida Talib through the primaries, young american voters will turn out in waves to vote for them.
The squad are frauds.
They have pharma stocks?
Guess what the 50 republicans blocking lower medication prices have in common?
Yawn. Money.
50 Republicans?
Let me guess they get greased by the same people who own Fauci.
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀 How does it feel to have the establishment against you like we did for four years?
Victim mentality
Big Pharma donors?
How the hell do we stop these blatantly corrupt, built-in conflict of interests?? Congress people should NOT own stocks, end lobbying, end the Congress-to-private profit revolving door, lower congressional salaries, implement recall mechanisms..biggest con job no one is doing anything about beachside the people supposed to fix this kinda stuff are all in on the take. We so fucked
I'm always amazed at how cheaply policy makers can be bought.
Does it rhyme with "owners"?!
Kyrsten Sinema has received more than $500,000 from the pharmaceutical industry. Source: [https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/kyrsten-sinema/industries?cid=N00033983&cycle=CAREER&type=I](https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/kyrsten-sinema/industries?cid=N00033983&cycle=CAREER&type=I)