[Perspective] British media: American politics is "black gold politics"

Republican Leonard Leo (Data Map)

China Daily, September 1st (Party Super Peak) American politics is "black gold politics"! On August 29, the publication of the British "Guardian" website revealed that billions of "black gold" is affecting US politics. The article is excerpted as follows:

In the past two years, through a series of opaque transactions, Chicago billionaires and 90 -year -old electronic manufacturing giants Barry Sad donate to a political advocate organization hosted by Republicans Lenard Leo. The largest donation has been known in the past, with a total amount of $ 1.6 billion.

The real problem of this political funding case is that such a huge amount of funds should not affect elections, legislation, judicial nominations, and public policies in a secret way. "The public should not rely on rare media to reveal The basic facts about the financial status of the campaign activities. Unfortunately, due to the outdated laws of the United States, these facts are now hidden behind anonymous, shell companies and dark political groups.

In the early 1970s, American news agencies exposed the "Water Gate Incident". After the scandal, the United States issued the "Information Discovery Law", and the journalism ushered in the golden age. For a time, the media can report the planning and finances in accordance with the new regulations, and there is no need to provide clues at all.

However, half a century later, the "black gold politics" 50 years ago became the norm again. In 2020 alone, more than 1 billion US dollars of "black gold" poured into the United States election to provide funds for the Super Political Council, advertising lightning, knocking on the door, etc.

As the mid -2022 elections approach, the situation is getting worse. The Democratic and Republican Senate and the important super political committees of the House of Representatives are funded by anonymous black money groups. These groups do not need to disclose their donors.

These problems are not unique to the field of campaign. In the past few years, an anonymous funding group has successfully put pressure on members of the members with advertising after the election to weaken to eliminate milestone medical care legislation aimed at the so -called "accident" medical bill. A survey of the American Cardiology Association showed that nearly half of the United States said that they did not dare to go to medical treatment because they were worried about medical bills outside.

Similarly, after supporting the Republican Party's rejection of the Republican Party's rejection of the Nominated Campaign of the Supreme Court of the Supreme Court of Obama in 2016, Tens of millions of US dollars support the nomination activities of the three conservative Supreme Court judges.

Although "black gold politics" is rampant, change seems to be slowly happening. Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehos has initiated a federal campaign fund reform bill "Public Act", stipulating that the "Black Gold Group" must disclose all donations with more than $ 10,000 in donations, requiring the empty emptiness in the election election. The shell company must disclose its owner and ask the election advertisement to list the names of the main donors of the sponsor. These requirements are not only applicable to activities related to elections, but also for campaign activities that affect the government's decision, including judicial nominations.

In addition, another bill of the White House will require the shadow groups of those lobbying Supreme Courts to disclose donors 'information. These groups usually lobby through the way of non -parties' opinions. Tilt judicial ruling -of course, these behind -the -scenes people are often chief executives of billionaires or a company. Other non -decisive legislations will eventually allow the Securities and Exchange Commission to ask large companies to disclose their political expenditure more comprehensively.

However, this struggle with "black gold" also faces a strong opponent. The United States Chamber of Commerce and Cechi Industry, which represents some of the largest black gold organizations in the United States, has been lobbying and opposing the Public Act in recent years. Keta Industry persuaded the Supreme Law Conservative Group to abolish California law through the method of donating black gold last year, which requires non -profit black gold groups to disclose their main donors to the state tax regulatory agency.

Recently, the conservative group and the Chief Prosecutor of Republican State have been trying to prevent a proposal to prevent enterprises from disclosing greenhouse gas emissions. It is also shocking that some of the news industry's own departments themselves also oppose "black gold" transparency. Representatives of the National Radio and Television Association who have obtained huge profits from the "Black Gold" advertisement, trying to prevent a rule of the Federal Election Commission ten years ago, which requires TV stations and radio stations to disclose advertisements purchased from political groups because The association believes that the approach to the "black gold" of television stations and radio stations will make themselves lose advertising revenue.

Recently, the National Radio and Television Association successfully opposed the Federal Communications Commission requesting that the broadcasting company to disclose foreign government sponsorship materials. The National Radio and Television Association is now lobbying on the Public Act.

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