Montini: Why A ‘Massive’ Dark Money Fine Is Chump Change — And We’re Chumps
January 01, 1970 | The Arizona Republic | Opinion
When is a “massive fine” chump change? Easy. When you’re talking about “dark money” groups backed by the billionaire Koch Brothers, a bunch of them right here in Arizona, for whom the $233,000 fine they recently paid out is a drop in the bucket compared to the millions they regularly spend on elections, and well worth being able to pull the strings on the puppet politicians they put in office.