{"id":338,"date":"2026-02-04T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/office-hours-the-worst-big-money-group\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:02:00","slug":"office-hours-the-worst-big-money-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/office-hours-the-worst-big-money-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Office Hours: The Worst Big-Money Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<br><div class=\"captioned-image-container\"><figure><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!HAC9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1991348f-374c-41dc-8ee1-258e31261214_3500x2567.jpeg\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"noopener\"><div class=\"image2-inset\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!HAC9!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1991348f-374c-41dc-8ee1-258e31261214_3500x2567.jpeg\" width=\"496\" height=\"363.8241758241758\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/1991348f-374c-41dc-8ee1-258e31261214_3500x2567.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1068,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:496,&quot;bytes&quot;:943277,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/i\/186624636?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1991348f-374c-41dc-8ee1-258e31261214_3500x2567.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" class=\"sizing-normal\" alt=\"\"><div class=\"image-link-expand\"><div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image\"><title><\/title><\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image\"><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><p>Friends,<\/p><p>Buckle up. Primary elections start in a few weeks. <\/p><p>Primaries have become increasingly important because, as American politics has polarized, most Republican or Democratic candidates who prevail in the primaries will win the general elections &#8212; so primary elections are often where the action is. <\/p><p>So, what determines who wins primaries? I&#8217;d like to think it&#8217;s the quality of the candidates. But while quality certainly plays a part, it&#8217;s also the size of their war chests for buying advertising to promote themselves and disparage their opponents.<\/p><p>These war chests depend increasingly on a few big, loathsome super PACs* that usually finance challengers from the <em>right<\/em> &#8212; in <em>both<\/em> Republican and Democratic primary races. <\/p><p>One of the most important national goals in future years should be to get big money out of politics. (As I&#8217;ve written <a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here,<\/a> we can do it without amending the Constitution or waiting for the Supreme Court to reverse <em>Citizens United.<\/em>)<\/p><p>In the meantime, though, it&#8217;s important to know what and who we&#8217;re up against. As a good rule of thumb, you might watch whom these super PACs support and vote against them. <\/p><p>Today I want to give you my nominees for the worst of these big loathsome super PACs &#8212; and ask you to choose the worst of the worst in the poll below and share your views in the comments. <\/p><p>Here are my nominees for the worst, and why I nominate them:<\/p>\n      <p>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/office-hours-which-of-these-loathsome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n              Read more\n          <\/a>\n      <\/p>\r\n<br>\r\n<br><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/office-hours-which-of-these-loathsome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friends,Buckle up. Primary elections start in a few weeks. Primaries have become increasingly important because, as American politics has polarized, most Republican or Democratic candidates who prevail in the primaries will win the general elections &#8212; so primary elections are often where the action is. So, what determines who wins primaries? I&#8217;d like to think it&#8217;s the quality of the&hellip;","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}