Claire McCaskill on Morning Joe: “The dark money behind the curtain is so huge, and it’s coming from those very places that Ossoff refers to in that ad.”
Atlanta, Ga. — A new campaign video released by Jon Ossoff for Senate is getting increasing buzz, including on Morning Joe, for exposing how pharmaceutical companies use political influence and campaign contributions to members of Congress to keep prescription drug prices high.
This is the first time a competitive Senate campaign has used a long-form video to explain how Washington corruption affects voters’ everyday lives.
“Every election cycle, drug companies spend millions of dollars on campaign contributions to both Democrats and Republicans to shape policy and protect their profits,” said Senator Jon Ossoff to camera.
See for yourself:
- MIKA BRZEZINSKI: A look at something on the national level, Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia has released a new campaign ad ahead of the midterm elections, focusing on affordability and the corruption that he says holds ordinary Americans down. Here’s part of the spot…
- JOE SCARBOROUGH: You know, I saw this ad yesterday. Claire, it’s four minutes, and he goes on and talks about specifically corruption with Big Pharma and why politicians won’t do the right thing on medical costs…
- CLAIRE MCCASKILL: Yeah. And, you know, we’ve talked some in the show this morning about the Supreme Court. There’s an outraise for what is the worst Supreme Court decision in our lifetime. But Citizens United has to be up there, because if you look at what’s happened in these races, there is more people now giving $5 and $10 to political campaigns than ever in the history of our country. […] But the dark money behind the curtain is so huge, and it’s coming from those very places that Ossoff refers to in that ad. And that is really what is fomenting the kind of corruption he’s referring to.
