“He’s already demonstrated that he will abandon any principle or any belief in order to win an election and maintain power.”

In response to a billionaire real estate mogul investing an unprecedented $25 million to prop up Joe Lombardo’s candidacy for governor, the Las Vegas Sun is calling out both real estate mogul Robert Bigelow and Lombardo’s brazen attempt to buy Nevada’s elections.

Las Vegas Sun: Editorial: Billionaire’s brazen attempt to buy Nevada elections should be a warning to voters

Key points:

    The scale of this type of single donor activity represents a horrifying danger to our democracy because it means oligarchs can essentially buy votes and politicians. It reeks of corruption.

    While many billionaire donors have focused their previous giving on federal elections, Bigelow is making a bid to buy the state of Nevada — more specifically, the governor’s mansion.

    Lombardo is the perfect candidate to realize Bigelow’s scheme. He’s already demonstrated that he will abandon any principle or any belief in order to win an election and maintain power.

    With the promise of support from a patron like Bigelow, there is no reason to believe Lombardo would be anything less than a puppet.

    If Lombardo wins, we must all remain vigilantly on the lookout for the ways Lombardo pays back his sugar daddy, since clearly he is the sugar baby in this relationship.