Valerian

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[–] Valerian@lemmy.world 204 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (12 children)

This is Steven J. Law

He is the closest aide of McConnell and his money man.

He is the CEO of the US Senate Leadership Fund.

For decades, Mitch McConell wielded huge power in the US Senate. Not because people liked him. Or respected him. But because all Republicans feared him. McConnell was a prodigious fundraiser with CEOs and Billionaires. He controlled the US Senate Leadership Fund. This is a fund with millions of dollars. And it can be used to support the reelection of Republican Senators by buying television ads. Those who opposed McConnell were denied access to the money.

Steven J. Law was instrumental in the Citizens United Supreme Court decision that ended limits on campaign contributions. He was McConnell's connection with CEO and Billionaires. His gatekeeper. Anytime a CEO needed something from US Senators, he called this dude.

On his personal page at Georgetown University, Steven J. Law bragged that he helped kill the Employee Free Choice Act

https://politics.georgetown.edu/profiles/steven-law/

This is a bill that was supposed to make it easier to join a labor union. Bernie Sanders supported it. He brags about killing it

The guy in this video is the most powerful political operative in Washington DC