Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and seven Democrat senators are demanding that the Democratic Party purge its own ranks of billionaire influence, calling on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin to ban super PACs and so-called “dark money” from Democratic primaries.
In a letter sent Tuesday and copied to every state Democratic Party chair, Sanders and his colleagues urge the national party to follow the Arizona Democrat Party’s lead and “clean our own house” to prove they are serious about campaign finance reform.
“We cannot allow billionaires and powerful corporate interests to continue undermining democracy by injecting unlimited amounts of money into the political process,” the senators wrote. They cited Elon Musk as a symbol of this trend, accusing
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