Removed/flagged from Hacker News/ Y Combinator news.
Tan, the CEO of the vaunted startup incubator Y Combinator, announced Wednesday he had spun up a dark-money group called “Garry’s List” that he described as a “voter education group” that is “dedicated to civic engagement, voter education and support for common-sense policies and candidates” in a press release. Such groups give donors a way to anonymously support causes without giving directly to a candidate or a measure.
That’s the state of american politics, that people just “announce” that they’re starting a dark-money group to influence public policy…
Like, didn’t dark money used to be a dirty secret? It wasn’t even that long ago. Crazy…