And where did the NRA get the money to run those ads? Russia.

And BTW those senators might have also used the same polling guy
that is linked to Paul Manafort/Russia/Ukraine/GRU.

Are they going to be made accountable? Are they going to be fined, taken out of their positions, jailed? Including the NRA, or is this going to get lost in the 100s discoveries made everyday about corruption from this administration, republican party and their donors?

a few low level staffers may get slaps on the wrist and the campaigns will have to pay some fines, but that's about it.

none of them should be allowed to get away with just a slap on the wrist if of course they knew about it before it happened.

pissing on USA

Pence and drumpf get thrown out of office for criminal conspiracy with a hostile foreign power to change the results of an election and violated campaign finance laws as well. All should be thrown out of office - everyone who took Russian NRA $$, which definitely includes McConnell, new elections are called to replace the traitors who used to be in Congress. All groups have to disclose all donors for elections, both their names and the company they represent. Re-instate in-kind advertising for political issues and races. President-to-be Pelosi could then declare a national emergency, pass sweeping national anti-gerrymandering laws that have to be implemented within 90 days, prior to the special election, sweeping voting rights changes to end subversive and racist database use to stop voting, laws that all candidates for federal office have to release 10 years of tax returns. She could also include a gun national emergency and stop all sales of assault rifles like AR-15, all sales of extended magazines, all gun sales go through background checks, CDC studies information and reports annually on this, no more than 1 gun purchase a year, all guns require safety locks to be sold. To resolve the immigration issue, any company that hires an illegal alien will be fined on a progressive basis and jailed if instances mount. Fix DACA, increase inspection of all vehicles coming into USA, and give path to citizenship. If no one hires non-citizens, they won't come. SCOTUS - install 2 new SCOTUS after corrective elections held and impeach Kavarape for criminal actions when they are proven to have happened.

I especially like the idea of taking back the SCOTUS stolen seat and the seat held by the lying, beer drinking, sex offender.

Both seats should be considered "fruit of the poisonous tree".

The loss of regulations has seriously weakened our country.

Instead I now use "Protections"
The loss of PROTECTIONS has seriously weakened our country.
Less protection, more vulnerabilities.

To me, "regulations" means restrictive. Which is what the GOP wants everyone to think.
"Protections" on the other hand, means caring. And we all know, GOP does not care about anyone.

So, we should all stop using the word regulations, and start using the word protections.

It drives my RWNJ friends, crazy.
They mention anything about regulations, I respond with the quesiton
"Don't you mean PROTECTIONS?"

BTW, love your name.

I posted a song last night w 'regulators' in it. I went a little afield w that in the post above. Heh heh. Have a good weekend.

Have a great weekend.

it mainly refers to the movie "Young Guns" and the hard justice angle. Woot.

Bought and paid for with Russian bribes. Lock them up.

The Democrats must make this a campaign issue.

investigating non-profit charities for political activity. The right launched an all-out attack on the IRS claiming that they had singled out conservative organizations, when in fact they had investigated both right and left-leaning charities. So the IRS back off enforcing laws against political activity by non-profits. I'm glad to see investigative journalists have taken up the issue..

to manipulate an election.

If only there were a law against it.

https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/opinion/times/story/2018/jul/30/sohn-nras-russilink-hties-blackburn/475893/

..."Since March, she has been reading more and more headlines and stories that link her longtime friend and former campaign president, attorney G. Kline Preston IV, to the NRA/Maria Butina Russian money and election meddling questions.

The Tennessean has reported that in addition to representing Blackburn on campaign finance questions, Preston has claimed Alexander Torshin as a Russian client and longtime friend. Torshin is the prominent Russian politician with close ties to President Vladimir Putin who is now under scrutiny for illegally channeling Russian funds through the National Rifle Association in an effort to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. According to the Tennessean, Preston first introduced Torshin to then-president of the NRA David Keene in 2011, and the pair attended the NRA's annual convention in Nashville in 2015.

Blackburn, a U.S. House of Representatives member since 2002 and now a Tennessee Senate candidate seeking Bob Corker's open seat, is a longtime NRA supporter and recipient of at least $34,700 in NRA donations, according to opensecrets.com, which tracks campaign donations. According to the Washington Post, Blackburn received the most NRA money since 2002 of any Tennessee Congress member. As in most campaign finance snapshots, that total listed for her includes only donations, not any possible expenditures by the NRA to oppose her challengers.

But by widening the lens, the NRA money picture gets a bit darker. The NRA spent $30 million on Trump's campaign in 2016 and another $40 million in various efforts to lobby and help elect Republicans, according to a recent New Republic report.

Now the arrest of Maria Butina, an alleged Russia spy who is said to have infiltrated the National Rifle Association, has turned up the heat on the NRA, Preston and Blackburn. Butina's indictment charging her with conspiring to influence American politics means further scrutiny into the NRA and its money trail. Although that investigation seems now primarily to be focused on the 2016 presidential election, the probe's fallout already is complicating the campaigns of Trump-clinging Republicans such as Blackburn, who also took NRA money and continues to court the NRA's support.

.......

After Vice President Mike Pence appeared at a Chattanooga fundraiser for Blackburn last weekend, the Tennessee Democratic Party raised new questions, as reported by WRCB:

"Going back to her 2007 meeting with Russian diplomat Igor Matveev, Marsha Blackburn has a more than decade-long history of meeting with Russian nationals on Tennessee soil. In 2012, she met with accused spy master Alexander Torshin when he visited Williamson County — her home county — as an election observer, squired by her former campaign president, attorney, and friend G. Kline Preston IV. Blackburn's actions speak much louder than her words," said Democratic Party spokesman Mark Brown."...(more)

In a just world, they’d at least lose their non-profit status.