AOC Lays Bare How Dark Money Corrupts Everything
During yesterday's Oversight Committee hearing on H.R. 1, the Democrats' ethics bill, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez used her time to demonstrate how our current lax campaign finance and ethics laws corrupt our government.
Telling the witnesses they were going to play a "lightning round game," AOC told them that for purposes of her questions, she would be the "bad guy."
"I want to get away with as much (sic) bad things as possible ideally to enrich myself and advance my interest, putting myself ahead of the American people," she told them. "I also enlisted all of you as my co-conspirators so you will help me legally get away with this."
First question: "So I want to run if I want to run a campaign that is entirely funded by corporate political action committees can anything prevent me from doing that?"
Answer: "No."
Second question: "If I am a really, really bad guy and there are skeletons in my closet that I need to cover up so I can get elected -- Mr. [Bradley] Smith you wrote this opinion piece for The Washington Post entitled "These payments to women were unseemly but that does not mean they were illegal?"
Answer: "I assume that's right."