What the crypto industry didn’t say in its deceptive — and effective — campaign ads
The following op-ed appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle.
By Dennis Kelleher
Nov 7, 2024
As the nation continues to recover from an anxiety-inducing election night, one interest group was never sweating it.
The crypto industry reportedly spent an astonishing $180 million on campaigns this year in an effort to elect candidates who support its agenda and defeat those who are opposed or even just skeptical of crypto’s claims — regardless of which party those candidates are affiliated with. Those efforts seem to have paid off. Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, one of the industry’s biggest critics, just lost his seat while a slew of crypto-friendly candidates won.
But even as crypto-friendly politicians take office in…
