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Crypto Industry's $40 Million Defeat of Pro-Worker Sherrod Brown Called 'Obscene'

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Jake Johnson is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.

The Republican Party's capture of the U.S. Senate this week was made possible in part by massive spending from the nascent but increasingly influential cryptocurrency industry, which pumped more than $40 million into a successful effort to topple pro-worker progressive Sen. Sherrod Brown in favor of luxury car dealer Bernie Moreno.

' 'Sherrod Brown is one of the most pro-worker, pro-middle-class members of the U.S. Senate,' Greenhouse added. 'He truly fights for workers.' 'The strategy was a brazen attempt to buy influence while keeping the public unaware of what they were supporting.

 

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