"Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is trying to turn corporate America into her lobbyists.
"'I urge you to use your financial leverage,' the Senate Banking Committee member and probable 2020 presidential candidate wrote to the head of BlackRock hedge fund, 'as a major gun company shareholder to encourage more responsible actions by these companies.' Warren invoked what she said was BlackRock's 'duty to positively contribute to society' and instructed the executive that this means leaning on gunmakers and pushing more restrictions on gun use and ownership. ...
"Democrats used to say they were worried that big money, particularly big finance, had too much power in politics. That's how the party tried to justify its proposal to regulate free speech with 'campaign finance reform.' After the Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United that Congress may not stop groups from criticizing politicians close to the election, Democrats decried the phenomenon of corporations using their 'powerful position' to put their thumb on the scale of political issues.
"But that was then, and this is now.
"Warren wants business to put their thumb on the political scales."
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