Washington, D.C. – There are few bigger hypocrites on the issue of corporate PACs than Michael Bennet, as we told you last week.
Not only is Bennet’s campaign funded, in part, by corporate PACs via separate leadership PACs, but he also takes money from corporate executives and lobbyists. He even takes money from executives at hedge funds like Oakcliff Capital, where he happens to have between $500,000 and $1 million personally invested.
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Colorado Democrat Kicks Off Reelection Campaign With a Lie
By Joseph Simonson
Sen. Michael Bennet (D., Colo.) claims he doesn’t accept contributions from corporate PACs or federal lobbyists. A Washington Free Beacon review of his campaign finance records tells another story.
“I’m not taking a dime in corporate PAC money,” Bennet says in his first reelection campaign ad. “Washington could learn a lot from Colorado. That’s why I approve this message.” But the Colorado senator accepted more than $60,000 from PACs that accept corporate PAC contributions last quarter alone. Bennet also accepted $3,500 from the Blackstone Group’s corporate PAC in 2021. The same quarter he accepted that donation he claimed on Twitter that his campaign was “setting records without taking a cent from corporate PACs.”
On multiple occasions Bennet has also claimed that he has never taken any donations from lobbyists. Yet lobbyists have given him more than one million dollars since he entered the Senate in 2009, according to his campaign finance records…
At least 16 PACs that accept donations from corporations donated money to Bennet last quarter, according to his campaign finance records. Those PACs include the Real Estate Roundtable PAC and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association…
Much of Bennet’s other donations come from those connected to financial firms. From 2009 to the second quarter of 2022, Bennet accepted more than $5 million dollars from the securities and investment industry. Employees from the investment management firms Blackstone Group and Oaktree Capital Management have given Bennet over a half million dollars.
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