Tom Cotton, Republican candidate for 4th District Congress, has issued a news release boasting about his $10,000 contribution from the PAC of Citizens United.
Yes, I said Citizens United. Dirt peddlers (they sniffed panties in the Whitewater faux controversy and made an attack movie on Hillary Clinton) and namesake of the seminal U.S. Supreme Court ruling that established corporate personhood and set in motion the biggest orgy of special interest spending the country has ever seen.
I suspect Cotton (who tries to claim the PAC is somehow independent of the organization itself, though the PAC directs you for more info to the parent’s webpage) might be trying to get out in front with this news — make it sound a positive rather than a clear sign of where his political interests lie. Coming out of the D.C. corporate consulting community, Cotton is a natural for this group.
This might not hurt Cotton among Republican voters. I saw more from the Talk Business poll this morning that indicates that a huge majority of 4th District Republican primary voters oppose making millionaires pay more taxes. Cotton’s their man. (Interesting that that poll also showed sentiments not far from equally divided — among REPUBLICAN voters — on the approval rating of nominal Democratic Rep. Mike Ross.) The poll showed Cotton and Beth Anne Rankin in a dead heat. Cotton’s next campaign strategy ought to be: “Vote for Cotton. He loves millionaires the most.”