Hypocrite Reid Receives $5 Million From Leftist Billionaire

by: Greg Campbell
The Democrats have been engaged in a war with political expression ever since Citizens United. In recent months, however, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has led the charge in a single-minded vendetta to stir outrage over Republican campaign contributions and, not coincidentally, distract voters from the plethora of outrages and scandals that surround the Democrats going into election season.

 

Senator Reid has railed against the Koch Brothers, the Republican benefactors who often give generously to campaigns and causes (including hospitals and other charities). Like the braggart that people avoid at parties, Sen. Reid has a way of awkwardly turning each and every discussion into a diatribe against the Koch Brothers. He has unabashedly accused them of hijacking American politics and has unapologetically rung the alarm bell to stir liberals to action. 

Meanwhile, however, Sen. Reid is lining Democrat coffers with millions solicited from- you guessed it- big Democrat contributors.

 

A new report from the New York Times notes that leftist billionaire Tom Steyer has donated $5 million to a super PAC linked to Harry Reid that is dedicated to helping the Democrats keep control of the Senate.

 

“What’s the difference between Tom Steyer giving money and the Koch Brothers giving money?” you might ask.

 

The answer: nothing. Not a thing. 

Billionaire Tom Steyer is a retired hedge fund manager who has made a fortune from industry. Now, the man who once made a portion of his money from the much-maligned capitalists guilty of pollution and greed now works for liberal causes and crusades for Democrats who will actively advance Steyer’s agenda of combating “climate change,” a vague term preferred by liberals to encompass any weather variances.

 

Steyer is chiefly dedicated to blocking the Keystone Pipeline which would reduce the costs of energy and employ thousands of Americans, but is hated by environmentalist activists because it produces fossil fuels, an energy source reviled by the left. 

On Monday, an energy efficiency bill died in the Senate after Democrats blocked Republican efforts to mend the bill to include an approval of the Keystone Pipeline.

 

In February, TPNN reported on the influence of Steyer who has claimed that he intends to dump $100 million into the 2014 midterm elections to help elect Democrats who will combat climate change.

 

Steyer’s own super PAC NextGen Climate Action, has already begun running ads dedicated to inducing climate change hysteria.

 

While Sen. Reid and other top Democrats posture as if big money infusions in elections are adulterations of the election process, they continue to reach out for hefty campaign contributions and violate the integrity of elections by crusading against voter ID laws. 

As we near November, it’s important to remember that the crusade against Republican “big money” is a distractor dedicated to removing scrutiny from the failure of Obamacare and the disastrous economic policies pushed by the left.

 

The simple fact is that money is political expression and it is in politics. It has been for centuries. We don’t have to like it, but it’s inherently dishonest for Democrats to pretend that Republicans are the culprits when it’s certainly a bipartisan modus operandi.