The stakes are very high this primary

Want a perfect example of the dark power we’re up against in this primary?

Over the past week – while our nation is pre-occupied with the coronavirus and Donald Trump continuing his post-impeachment governmental purge – our U.S. Rep. Ami Bera has shamelessly raised $24,500* largely from seven corporations fined a stunning $9 billion combined since 2000. Equally outrageous, over this same period, these same corporations** received a whopping $1.7 billion in government subsidies and loan guarantees.

Folks, this is how we taxpayers are being abused by mega-corporations and the corporate-backed politicians they sponsor for office. It’s a big reason our federal deficit seems impossible to reign in. But it’s also a major reason I decided to run nine months ago. It’s why I decided to take the most principled fundraising pledge in the nation: no PAC money, no corporate money; donations only from voters in our 7th Congressional District.

It’s also why I’m running on a nonpartisan Election Reform Constitutional Amendment to take 80% of this corrupting money out of our politics. This won’t be easy to pass and ratify, but it’s our only option left to keep Bera and his corporate sponsors from completely controlling every part of our government.

And don’t think this was an unusual week for Bera. More than half of the nearly $20 million he has raised in his career has come from corporations. This includes $50,000 from some of the largest opioid makers and distributors. And last year alone, Bera raised more than $150,000 from 69 corporations fined a combined $99 billion since 2000.

This is who our democracy is being sold off to. So instead of Ami Bera, we need a Congressman who will protect us from these dark corporations, not use them to fund his political ambitions. We need a Congressman who will introduce and fight for legislation to strip all corporate subsidies from any company that wracks up more than $500,000 in fines over any five-year-period. In other words…

We need BURDICK FOR CONGRESS.

You have just six days left to vote in the March 3rd primary. Make sure you put that vote to work. We can make the Top 2 in this primary, and then I will be able to take this fight one-on-one against Ami Bera and his dangerously powerful corporate sponsors.

Sincerely,