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Democratic Consultants Are Sinking Biden’s Agenda.
And are being paid to do it.
When it comes to the failure of the Democratic party to fulfill a single one of their campaign promises, those of us on the left find ourselves considering all the factors that could be contributing to their inaction. While many of us attribute it to weakness or corruption of our elected officials, recent reporting from Andrew Perez with The Daily Poster serves as a reminder that while lawmakers like Biden are certainly to blame, so are the party’s top.
Perez writes:
“President Joe Biden’s top media buying firm is helping Big Pharma’s efforts to kill his party’s watered-down drug pricing legislation and targeting Senate Democrats up for re-election this year. It’s the latest reminder that for the Beltway consultant class, money is far more important than ideology.
…A top Democratic Party media buying firm, Canal Partners Media, is placing ads for drug industry front groups that want to block Democrats from lowering drug prices as promised in the Biden reconciliation bill. One group argues that Democrats are putting rare disease patients at risk, and is targeting several incumbent Democratic senators by name. The other says Democrats are harming drug companies’ ability to respond to pandemics like COVID-19.”
