Follow the money and you’ll see what drives many people in life, as well as in politics. Conservatives and liberals alike often find this to be true when it comes to the interchange of money, politicians, and powerful organizations. Planned Parenthood receives an exorbitant amount of taxpayer subsidies but also gives thousands of dollars to Democrats each year in order to keep receiving them. The continual exchange of money and power is common, if incestuous. However, occasionally, the reverse exists: Liberal organizations secretly back conservative politicians they despise, probably to keep their tax breaks, even while publicly denouncing their political positions.
In a tweet thread on Monday, Judd Legum, founder of ThinkProgress and former research director of Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, revealed information he found showing a disparity that might not be all that unusual. The same large Hollywood companies who claim they’ll stop filming in Georgia and Louisiana because of their new six-week abortion bans also donated money to the same conservative politicians who supported the bans. Legum covers the full story in his newsletter.
