Jenni and Michael talked about Dark Money and other election influences during their March 27th edition of ROPE Report Live. Jenni has talked a lot about dark money over the last couple years, but there are so many other things that influence our elections today - not only is dark money paying for push cards/mailers, television, radio and social media, but also text messaged "push" polls, which attempt to "push" you into voting for a candidate based on poll questions, text messages asking you to "thank" candidates who are also running for Senate Pro Temp and individuals and organizations spending multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars on candidates across all kinds of elections.
In this clip, Jenni talks a bit about the federal law that prevents the use of foreign money in elections. We have a huge marijuana industry now in Oklahoma - and in fact, we're the number one state in terms of illegal exportation of marijuana. Where is that money going? Could it be funding dark money social welfare organizations? How do we know dark money isn't coming from foreign sources? Shouldn't we care?
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