RE: https://mastodon.online/@EditorDavePerry/116795606441026250

Interesting read, about dark money flowing into #Colorado #Democrat races here in the primary cycle! Check and research the org names at the bottom of that mailer you get, or that FB ad.

The dark money is to push more mainstream and less progressive candidates to the ballot in November. I think we need more aggressive moves to help make government work for working people, not more of the same mainstream Dem neoliberalism. Even if you disagree doesn’t it come across wrong that the corporate origin of the money is hidden? Article covers labor union money in these races too, which at least is transparent (and to me more trusted to push for change for working people).

It’s a different story in a race that is a long shot for any Dem, like unseating #LaurenBoebert with #EileenLaubacher. There any Dem will do. This is my district and the calculus is different here.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/16/lauren-boebert-trump-funds-colorado-drink-water-funds-tina-peters?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

In comments to 9News Denver on Friday, Boebert also said that she hoped the release of Peters would convince Trump to stop blocking funds for a federal project to bring clean drinking water to Colorado. “We were told that Tina was the reason we couldn’t get water,” Boebert said, an apparent reference to Trump exerting on Colorado’s governor the same kind of pressure he put on Ukraine’s president in 2019, when he withheld congressionally mandated military aid to try to force Ukraine to open a sham investigation into Joe Biden. Trump was impeached for that scheme in 2019.

In January, the president had vetoed a bill that would have funded a drinking water project in Boebert’s Colorado district, after it passed the House and Senate unanimously. Boebert, like all other Colorado lawmakers, had supported the bill, which would have supported clean water for 50,000 people in the region.

#MAGA #corruption #quidproquo #USPol #fascism #tinaPeters #laurenBoebert #jaredPolis #january6

"Why is everyone so horny"
– Congressperson #LaurenBoebert

#uspol #politics #EricSwalwell