Team,
As you know, I refer to the ultra-rich people who meddle anonymously in our politics as the “creepy billionaires.” Well, guess what? An anonymous creepy meddler is now up on the air against me in Rhode Island.
After I’ve fought the creepy billionaires who fund the climate-denial operation, after I’ve fought the creepy billionaires behind the Court-capture operation, and after I’ve fought the dark money that powers up the creepy billionaires’ creepy schemes, this comes as no surprise.
It’s no surprise, but it is an occasion to say thank you. Your generosity and support all the way along have put me in a position to withstand this “creepy billionaire” nonsense. So, with all my heart, thank you.
This dark-money nonsense just animates my fighting spirit. We can’t have a Congress that ignores the climate change threatening Rhode Island’s shores, just because creepy polluter billionaires deploy their dark money influence. We can’t have a Supreme Court that stops following the law whenever creepy billionaires signal instructions to them through dark-money front groups clustering around the Court. And we can’t have a democracy where voters come in second to whichever billionaires, polluters and special interests are willing and able to funnel secret billions in dark money into our politics.
Those are things worth fighting for, persistently and relentlessly. And I will.
— Sheldon Whitehouse
