The Most Expensive Senate Race, Ever!

       The Pennsylvania Senate race between Pat Toomey and Katie McGinty is headed for the record of being the most expensive senate race in history.  Are we proud of such a distinction? $100 million and counting is the projection. But its not the two candidates that are causing this all time record, it's the Supreme Court in its citizens united decision that is to blame.
       That decision opened the door for dark money non profits and Super-PACs to spread untruths, half truths half baked stories and on occasion a truth peeking through the curtain.  I don't have all the facts, but it sure looks like the candidates whose Super-PACs and dark money non profits that are spending the most money seem to be the ones spreading the biggest lies. And who might that be?
       One way to tell is to ask who wants the citizens united ruling reversed and who is silent on the subject. Well McGinty wants the decision struck down but Toomey seems to be content with it as it is. I can only assume that's because his dark money cohorts are outspending McGinty. Toomey himself is outspending McGinty almost three to one. So I guess if you like all those ads on TV, you must be in favor of citizens united and its supporter, Pat Toomey.
       The worst part of citizens united  is that these dark money folks can take money from anybody, even somebody like Vladimir Putin. Of course that would be illegal, but the donors are completely secret. So if these dark money handlers want to, they can take in money from anywhere. Look at who's funding Toomey, the Koch brothers are huge supporters. Of course they're not from Pennsylvania, but who cares, right? Dark money gets washed into clean money.