Democrats Secretly Use Centrist Group To Defeat Regulations

House Democrats have given more than a million dollars to a dark money group that has been actively fighting against lowering prescription drug prices. This group is being run by a former Pelosi staffer, and has ties to all sorts of industries and former Democratic officials. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

Check out our merch by visiting our store

Subscribe to our podcast

Become a member today!

Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!

Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content!

Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel

Be sociable! Follow us on:

*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

House Democrats have given more than a million dollars to dark money groups that have been actively fighting against lowering prescription drug prices. That's the Democrats behind this. This is a group being run by a former Pelosi staffer and has ties to all sorts of industries and former Democratic officials. I've got Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins to talk about this. God, can we talk about this since we're talking about Democrats? I mean, are we allowed to talk about this? What do you think?

You're definitely gonna have some keyboard warriors getting angry about this. But the fact is, you have the House Democrats chief fundraising arm that has pumped more than a million dollars into this dark money group that then turns around and spends that money lobbying these same lawmakers to not lower prescription drugs for Americans.

The story is never told. Okay. All that you hear is Democrats want to lower drug prices. Republicans don't. That's what you hear. Democrats want to increase regulations. Republicans don't. But behind the scenes, the truth is this is what's going on. And we're not just talking about minor players. As I just said, this is coming from the Pelosi camp. As a matter of fact, you had Alixandria Lapp, she was a former lobbyist for the pharma industry, and she is like in charge. She's the one that calls the shots on Pfizer and the Chamber of Commerce. These are folks that are ingrained, deeply seated in the DNC, right? So we don't ever hear about it. And the people at the end of the day, these are the folks. Center forward is the name of the organization. Conoco, Chevron, Business Roundtable, Altria, Honeywell, US Chamber of Commerce, Global Strategies Group. This is like the who's who of corporate America and the Democrats, again, I know it kills people when we talk about the Democrats, don't talk about 'em. How dare you talk about 'em. We have an election coming up. Well, that doesn't make any difference if all you have is a party that we're gonna say, oh, they're always for us. They're not. Just like the Republicans aren't. The Democrats aren't either. I have an advantage. I'm independent. I know you're a Democrat and you're great, you're a great voice for the Democrats. They're so lucky to have you. Okay. But I'm not. I'm independent. I have to look at a story like this and say, what the hell? Why are we kidding ourselves?

Well, exactly. If we can't hold our own side accountable, then we are no good at what we do. And that is the point of this. This is coming from a left-leaning website and it's not to say, oh, look at just these people are horrible. It's to shine a light on it and tell people, listen, we've got some serious problems over here on the left, and you can choose to bury your head in the sand. Act like none of this matters, because the only thing that matters is if we win or lose elections, or we can shine the spotlight on these people, shame them and get them out of office and replace 'em with somebody better.

Are we allowed to do that? Are you as a Democrat, are you allowed to do that?

According to people online, no, I'm not.

No, I don't think, yeah, according to people online, you're not allowed to do that. I'm allowed to do it because I really don't give a. I'm gonna talk about Republicans and I'm gonna talk about Democrats. And so, but let me just give the quick lineup. Paul Brathwaite, this is one of the strategists here. Well, who's he lobbying? He's lobbying for Amazon, Bristol Myers, petro manufacturers. This is the guy at the heart on the board of this organization. Kate Dickens, biotech company, EnergyX.