News this morning from McClatchy via Raleigh’s News & Observer:
Tillis and NC Republicans paid $345,000 to the data firm that’s now banned from Facebook
The story prompted me to drop my senator, Thom Tillis (R), a line just now:
Dear Sen. Tillis,
When you hired Cambridge Analytica to install you in the Senate like a washing machine, did they throw in the the “beautiful” Ukrainian sex workers and the kompromat as a free bonus, or did you have to pay extra for those?
Asking for a friend.
If you haven’t yet viewed the sting video of Cambridge Analytica’s CEO pitching his company’s dirty tricks campaign services to a prospective customer, it’s well worth your time, even if you’ve already read about it. It sounds so much like crazy CT that you have to see it to believe it: