Shitloads of Dark Money Are Fueling the Conservative Campaign to Confirm Brett Kavanaugh!

"It was inevitable that the vast machine in place to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court would be well oiled by money from conservative megadonors. Politico reported today that spending by conservative groups like the Judicial Crisis Network (JCN), a non-profit that doesn’t have to disclose its donors and has worked hard to conceal their identities in the past, is already dwarfing the comparatively paltry amount spent by liberal groups trying to defeat Kavanaugh’s nomination.

According to Politico, pro-Kavanaugh conservatives “have run more than $7.5 million in television ads thus far compared with approximately $1.3 million from liberals in the fight over Kavanaugh’s confirmation.” The ads are targeting swing senators, like Democrats Heidi Heitkamp and Doug Jones, and Republicans Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins. Some of these ads are available on YouTube, and they are pure shit, seemingly written to target people too dumb to tie their own shoes. This one targeting Indiana Senator Joe Donnelly claims Kavanaugh “treats everyone fairly,” keeping with the push to confirm Kavanuagh because he’s a nice bloke who carpools or whatever:

The site also reported that JCN is running ads specifically “at airports and on MSNBC,” presumably because they’re targeting the Democratic senators and their staffers to give the impression of a wider TV campaign, because who the fuck else watches MSNBC?

JCN’s spending will likely ramp up as the confirmation fight begins in the Senate, too: The group told Politico they would “meet or surpass” the $10 million they spent to confirm Neil Gorsuch. NARAL Pro-Choice America estimated conservative groups like the NRA and America First Policies have already pledged $30 million to confirm Kavanaugh. But Brian Fallon, the head of the leading anti-Kavanaugh group Demand Justice, told Politico the conservatives’ spending “will probably be closer to 6 or 7-to-1 instead of the 20-to-1 edge you saw on Gorsuch.” It is a testament to the deeply shit world we live in that this counts as good news.

Other groups on both sides are also spending on grassroots activism. According to the site, both the Koch network and Heritage Action will deploy phone-banking and other on-the-ground activism, and NARAL told the site it would direct the “vast majority” of its resources to organizing."

URL: [splinternews.com]