Tag: Senate

MoveOn to Corporations: You Can’t Buy a Senate Seat

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As $ 61 million in dark money pours in to support the Stevens campaign, grassroots group helps GOTV for El-Sayed; launches mailers, digital ads, phone banks, billboards, canvassing to expose the corporate cash flying around her campaign.  DETROIT – In the final home stretch of the most-watched Senate primary race of the cycle, MoveOn Political Action is redoubling its grassroots get-out-the-vote effort for Dr. Abdul El-Sayed as the Democratic nominee for the open U.S. Senate seat.  Ahead of the August 4 primary, MoveOn is launching billboards, a digital ad targeting…

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MoveOn: Senate Should End Blanche’s Nomination, Not Just Delay It

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – In response to the Senate Judiciary Committee postponing its vote on Trump’s unqualified personal lawyer Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general, MoveOn Political Action Chief Communications Officer Joel Payne released the following statement: “Todd Blanche’s nomination is stalled because his record is corrupt and indefensible. He has spent his career proving that there is no legal principle he will not bend and no institution he will not compromise in service of Donald Trump. His blind loyalty, willingness to use the justice system to protect the president, and…

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Senate confirms Jay Clayton as nation’s intelligence director

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The Senate has confirmed Jay Clayton to become head of the nation’s intelligence agencies. The vote Tuesday puts a permanent director in the job weeks after President Donald Trump sought to delay his nomination. Clayton is the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman. Republicans had initially hoped to confirm Clayton in June, but Trump delayed his hearing in order to allow his temporary pick for the job, Bill Pulte, to take over for several weeks. The last director of…

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