Mitch McConnell warns GOP senators they’ll face ‘incoming’ if they back Hawley bill to limit corporate giving in campaigns

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Mitch McConnell warns GOP senators they’ll face ‘incoming’ if they back Hawley bill to limit corporate giving in campaigns | CNN Politics
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Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell bluntly warned Republican senators in a private meeting not to sign on to a bill from Sen. Josh Hawley aimed at limiting corporate money bankrolling high-powered outside groups, telling them that many of them won their seats thanks to the powerful super PAC the Kentucky Republican has long controlled.

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I vote we have a law where politicians have to have logos of their sponsors emblazoned on all their suits

This. Lawmakers should have to dress in polyester jumpsuits, covered in advertising, just like the folks in "Idiocracy." If they're going to BE removed, they might as well LOOK like them.

s/uits/kins

and now im with you.

It'll be awkward when they all have 666 branded on their foreheads though