Eli Clifton & Jim Lobe, Lobe Log - Cotton’s rise to prominence didn’t come cheap and required friends with very deep pockets. His Senate campaign cost $13.9 million, and some of his biggest campaign contributions came from far outside his home state of Arkansas...
Paul Singer’s New York-based Elliot Management hedge fund... went on to become the second biggest source of direct contributions to Cotton’s Senate campaign after the pro-business Club for Growth.
Singer, Sheldon Adelson, and Dan Senor are recurring characters in efforts to blow up diplomacy with Iran.
Both Singer and Adelson, who famously recommended a first-strike nuclear attack on Iran to send the message that the U.S. is serious about dismantling the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, are huge donors to a series of hawkish think tanks....
Cotton’s fanaticism was on display when he tried (unsuccessfully thankfully) to introduce an amendment to the Nuclear Iran Prevention Act of 2013 that would have “automatically” levied prison sentences of up to 20 years against violators of US sanctions against Iran. Moreover, such punishment would have been applied to “a spouse and any relative, to the third degree” of the sanctions violator, including, in Cotton’s words, “parents, children, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces, grandparents, great grandparents, grand kids, great grand kids.” Cotton explained during a markup hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee that “there would be no investigation” needed in such cases because, “if the prime malefactor of the family is identified as on the list for sanctions, then everyone within their family would automatically come within the sanctions regime as well.”
Such profound appreciation for the U.S. Constitution and legal process is certainly reflected in Cotton’s effort to undermine the authority of the executive branch of government to conduct foreign policy and negotiate a peaceful solution to Iran’s nuclear program
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