Mark Mitchell

And what it tells us, really the worst part, is it says that, well, Big Soda has this lobbyist group, the American Beverage Association, and they wanted to make sure that they continue these sales.

They don't really care about the health of American children.

And so one of the things that they did was deploy these lobbyists and quite easily, very easily, purchase Washington, D.C.,

in a way that precluded any accountability here.

It literally just glosses over it in the article.

Oh, yeah, it was so easy.

They just wrote a couple checks, and DC is good.

Yeah, absolutely.

So big business has a problem.

Maybe the government's going to cut off their corporate welfare, make it so that they can't buy sugary beverages on Snap.

And they buy Washington, D.C., no problem, easy.

They do it all day long, every day, all day, every single company.

But the problem is that what happens when the states start passing legislation, they're a lot harder to purchase.

So they went to a vast network, according to The Guardian, of right-wing influencers, lobbyists.

These are people that everybody knows in Republican circles in Washington, D.C., and even Republican pollsters.

And what did they do?

They spent $2 million buying polls that –

drum roll, showed the exact results that they needed to bring it to Republican governors in order to get this legislation shut down.

And what do they say?

Well, look at this.