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Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are raking in corporate cash as they
block some of the most popular and needed provisions of the Democrats'
reconciliation package.
But the corporate media refuses to report on these obvious conflicts of
interest.
In fact, as Common Dreams just reported, the major TV networks mentioned
these conflicts on just 4% of their segments, for a total of 45 seconds.
And when they did mention it, their pundits insisted the corporate money
had nothing to do with their opposition to the bill.
That's not journalism. It's gaslighting.
On September 28, Sinema flew to a fundraiser with five corporate lobby
groups that fiercely oppose the bill, asking for individual donations of
up to $5,800 to attend. When she returned to D.C., she immediately
reiterated her opposition to the bill, including popular tax increases
for big corporations and the ultra wealthy.
Then when the drug industry started running ads supporting her—which is,
effectively, a campaign contribution—Sinema immediately announced her
opposition to the bill's plan allowing Medicare to bargain lower prices
with drug companies, a policy that's supported by more than 8 in 10
Americans.
Joe Manchin's conflicts are, if anything, more blatant. He owns a coal
firm called Enersystems, now run by his son, that continues to pay him
millions. Meanwhile, he's almost single-handedly forcing the Biden
administration to remove important and hugely popular climate provisions
from the bill, like incentives for utilities to transition to clean
energy.
It's plain as day that the reason these Democrats are opposing such
wildly popular proposals is money. But the corporate media is basically
running a gaslighting operation to convince the public that up is down,
black is white . . . and money doesn't influence politicians.
Common Dreams has the independence to call out Manchin and Sinema's
corporate money because we refuse to take in corporate advertising
dollars. Instead, we rely on you, our readers. Will you make a donation
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