
Denise Powell, the Democratic candidate for Nebraska's Second Congressional District, wants you to know she's very concerned about dark money in politics. So concerned, in fact, that she made tens of thousands of dollars consulting for the Democrats' biggest dark money operation before deciding it was a problem.
Powell worked as a paid consultant for the Sixteen Thirty Fund, which Conservative Review describes as the Democrats' "preeminent dark money hub." For those unfamiliar, the Sixteen Thirty Fund and its sister organization the New Venture Fund are the left's premier vehicles for funneling untraceable cash into political campaigns. They're the mothership. The Death Star of anonymous Democratic dollars.
And Denise Powell was on the payroll.
Now she's running for Congress on a platform of — wait for it — getting dark money out of politics. Because apparently the best person to clean up dark money is someone who literally profited from it for years. That's like hiring an arsonist to run the fire department because "they really understand how fires start."
The hypocrisy gets better. The Sixteen Thirty Fund and New Venture Fund are currently facing a lawsuit from the Nebraska Attorney General's office. So Powell's former clients are being sued by the state she wants to represent. That's not a conflict of interest — that's a conflict of reality.
Let's be clear about what's happening here. Powell didn't just donate to dark money groups. She didn't just attend their fundraisers or retweet their talking points. She was a consultant. She did work for them. They wrote her checks — tens of thousands of dollars worth, per the reporting from Conservative Review's Chuck Ross.
This is the Democratic playbook in a nutshell. Benefit from the system, climb the ladder using the system, then turn around and campaign against the system to win votes from people who don't know any better. It's a grift wrapped in a platform wrapped in a press release.
And notice the framing — she wants to get "dark money" out of politics. Not all anonymous political spending. Just the kind that helps Republicans. The Sixteen Thirty Fund can keep doing its thing, presumably, since it's doing God's work or whatever Democrats tell themselves at night.
Nebraska voters in the Second Congressional District deserve to know exactly who's asking for their vote. Not a reformer. Not a crusader against corruption. A consultant who made tens of thousands from the very machine she now claims to oppose.
She didn't see the light. She saw the poll numbers.


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