After Taking Millions from Corporate PACs, Maloney Wants ‘Big Corporate Money Out of Politics’
DCCC chairman took over $500k from corporations last cycle
Democratic congressman Sean Patrick Maloney pledged last month to get corporate money out of politics, but campaign finance records show he took over half a million dollars from corporations last cycle alone.
Maloney, who chairs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), told voters in his New York district that his party's top legislative item, HR1, is needed to get big money out of politics. "We gotta get this big money out of politics and HR1 would do that," Maloney said, "by getting big corporate money out of politics."
Unmentioned by Maloney during the town hall was that he took over $500,000 from corporate political action committees last cycle, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis of campaign contributions. Among the contributions to Maloney's campaign were thousands of dollars from United Healthcare, Amazon, Bank of America, Comcast, Delta, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and Coca-Cola.
Maloney's office did not respond to a request for comment. Records show Maloney and his affiliated PACs have taken millions of dollars worth of corporate money since he was first elected to Congress in 2010.
Maloney's remarks on corporate money come as Democrats press corporations to punish Republicans for political views they deem unacceptable. In Georgia, Democrats, including President Joe Biden, pressured Major League Baseball to move its annual All-Star Game from Atlanta over objections to a Republican-passed election reform bill. Delta and Coca-Cola, both headquartered in Georgia, have been on the receiving end of pressure campaigns from activists to speak out against Republicans.
As recently as January, Maloney complained publicly after some corporations announced they would be cutting off political spending to both parties after rioters entered the U.S. Capitol. He said Democrats were "taking it personally" and didn't think his party should lose out on corporate money because of Republican objections to the election results.
"When corporate America seeks to walk around the block and leave us alone in this fight, we're taking it personally," Maloney said. "This is an offensive act to those of us who have been defending our Constitution."
In addition to the millions of dollars Maloney himself has taken from corporations, the Maloney-chaired DCCC has already raised almost a quarter of a million dollars since he took over in December.
FEC records show the DCCC has taken over $220,000 in corporate contributions, including tens of thousands of dollars from companies, such as FedEx and CSX Corporation, that are lobbying on transportation issues, which fall under Maloney's jurisdiction as a member of the House Transportation Committee.
According to OpenSecrets calculations, Maloney received more from the cruise ship industry than any other House member last cycle. The only politician to receive more than Maloney from the cruise industry is President Joe Biden.
The DCCC did not respond to requests for comment about whether it will continue taking corporate money moving forward.
With Biden in the White House, President Trump predicted, China would “own the United States.” There’s also something to Trump’s charge that the Bidens are an “organized crime family.”
This is because despite all its declarations, the Democratic Party is not a party of workers. It, as Biden’s transition team attests, is a party of Wall Street, big banks, Amazon, and the military-industrial complex.
PERKS FOR PRICKS: Democratic Governors Embroiled in Monumental Vaccine Bribery Scandal, Journalism Reveals
Announced partnerships with CVS after pharmacy giant donated massive sums to Democrats
Some of the most prominent Democratic governors in the country have partnered with CVS Pharmacy to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to their constituents, raising questions about political corruption and bribery at the top levels of the Democratic Party.
Why did these governors—Gavin Newsom of California, Andrew Cuomo of New York, and Ralph Northam of Virginia—choose CVS?
Campaign finance reports skillfully obtained and extensively reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show that CVS donated tens of thousands of dollars to the Democratic Party during the 2020 election cycle. CVS cofounder Stanley Goldstein, meanwhile, donated $3,000 to federal candidates—all Democrats—before retiring in 2006.
Why does it matter? According to CBS News: "Distributing vaccines is lucrative. Under federal guidelines, Publix, like any other private company, can charge Medicare $40 a shot to administer the vaccine."
A journalistic analysis of the finance reports conclusively demonstrated that CVS donated $31,000 to Newsom's campaign on Oct. 14, 2020, less than four months before the pharmacy announced a partnership with the California Department of Health. The pharmacy giant also donated $10,000 to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, one of the most influential Democrats in Congress, who just happens to represent a district in California.
The analysis also determined that CVS donated $12,000 to Northam between 2017 and 2018, and contributed $20,000 to the Commonwealth Victory Fund on Dec. 17, 2020, just weeks before Northam announced the vaccine partnership with the pharmacy. A subsequent Google search revealed that the Commonwealth Victory Fund is the primary fundraising arm of the Virginia General Assembly's Democratic Caucus.
Additional analysis concluded that CVS donated a whopping $170,000 in 2020 to the Democratic Party in New York, the same state where Cuomo serves as governor. The corporation donated $10,000 to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, and gave an additional $10,000 to Schumer's political action committee.
The CVS influence campaign did not stop there.
The company sought to curry favor at the
national level by contributing $30,000 each to
the Democratic Senatorial Campaign
Committee and the Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee. Most disturbingly of all,
CVS employees donated a staggering $450,595
to Joe Biden's presidential campaign, according
to federal documents extracted and decoded
by the Free Beacon.
CVS did not respond to our request for comment about its deplorable campaign to boost its profits by bribing Democrats.
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