Will America get the best Congress that money can buy? 
Of course. Americans of the non-plutocratic class have very little impact on the bankrolling of the races. Thanks to the Supreme Court, US elections are gamed by billionaires, millionaires and their secretive front groups. We are all bystanders in America's democracy.
The Center for Responsive Politics projected last week that about $4B will wash through the political system to back and destroy candidates in the election next week, making it the most expensive mid-term race ever. That will be chump change, a mere tune-up to the heavyweight championship of 2014, when the triumphant GOP—assuming Democrats "lose" control of the Senate—have a shot to seize control of the White House.
The New York Times today, on its front page, kicked off the Jeb Bush for President campaign bandwagon. That unlikely stalking horse for Dubya's Big Brother may consider the former Sunshine State Governor the lesser-of-evils vis-a-vis Rand Paul, Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz, Rick Perry, Chris Christie and the rest of the gang. It is hard ito magine the spending orgy that would erupt during a re-run of Clinton vs. Bush. The Bush family would relish a bit of political revenge, while the Democrats desperate to hang on to a single lever of DC power would spend whatever it takes.
There is a silver lining in the $4B election. The money has put the environment back into the national spotlight. Today's hard-pressed media have dropped coverage of climate change and green issues. E.g., Pulitzer Prize-winning website Inside Climate News reports that NPR has cut its environmental team to a single reporter.
Kantar Media/CMAG says there have been more than 125K ads in the Senate races mentioning energy, climate change and the environment. Billionaire greenie Thomas Steyer and his NextGen Climate have squared off with the billionaire Koch Bros. on the right.
Republicans have hammered Democrats for supporting President Obama's green regulations to curb global warming. Democrats have attacked Republicans for denying the science behind climate change.
In my book, it's a toss-up, but at least a debate is going on.
The same can't be said beyond the political mud-slinging of the airwaves. That's irresponsible. Our children will pay for that neglect.
A focus on all the ways that greenhouse gases are created, not just from fossil fuels, marks the evolution from clean energy and clean tech to climate tech, according to Melissa Mahoney from V2 Communications.
Kristin Wilson-Palmer, who has been a senior VP in Edelman’s Washington, DC office since 2021, joins the Natural Resources Defense Council as chief communications officer.
Educating the next generation to the facts and science surrounding the climate crisis.
Melanie Janin, who was executive VP at Weber Shandwick, has joined Conservation International as chief communications & marketing officer.
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