Demo­c­ra­t­ic sen­a­tor decry­ing ‘cor­po­rate spe­cial inter­ests’ rakes in $60,000 from lob­by­ists

Sen. Bob Casey (D‑PA), who has long slammed K Street’s influ­ence, pock­et­ed tens of thou­sands of dol­lars in dona­tions recent­ly from dozens of lob­by­ists, records show.
The Penn­syl­va­nia Demo­c­rat often touts how he is stand­ing up to “cor­po­rate spe­cial inter­ests” and faces a chal­lenge in 2024 from Repub­li­can busi­ness­man Dave McCormick, who unsuc­cess­ful­ly ran in the 2022 pri­ma­ry against Mehmet Oz and worked in the Bush admin­is­tra­tion. Between July and Sep­tem­ber, Casey’s reelec­tion cam­paign took rough­ly $60,000 from fed­er­al lob­by­ists, includ­ing for a com­pa­ny near­ly delist­ed from Unit­ed States stock exchanges for alleged ties to Chi­na’s gov­ern­ment, accord­ing to cam­paign finance dis­clo­sures.
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The cash trans­fers appear to under­cut Casey’s rhetoric over the years decry­ing cor­po­rate pow­er and fur­ther illus­trate how the sen­a­tor has been affil­i­at­ed with the lob­by­ing world. In the lead-up to 2024, lob­by­ing firms, includ­ing Wash­ing­ton, D.C.‘s influe …