Republican state Attorneys General push for grocery mega-merger between Kroger and Albertsons

Dave Yost and Three Other AGs Push for Grocery Mega-Merger Between Kroger and Albertsons

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With grocery prices being what they are, I can't imagine any rational person thinks this is a good idea.
Edit: Even without high grocery prices, having this much of a monopoly on groceries would be insane.
- Because he is being bribed to say it is good
Curious how much it cost Kroger-Albertsons to get this support? What was it worth to sell out workers and consumers?
- If donation histories from other politicians I've seen are any indication, it's sad how little these people sell out for. If only they all joined a union, they could leverage their political positions to get much more money out of the corporations.
  When it comes to Dave Yost, I don't see anything in the last five years specific to Kroger or Albertsons - not to say they didn't funnel money to his campaign somehow - got about $6,000 from a couple food companies.
  Steve Marshall of Alabama fame got $2,000 or so.
  Georgia's Chris Carr seems to be an outlier here in that he gets most of his funding from a variety of alcohol distributors and himself to the tune of roughly $400,000.
  That leaves us with Tom Miller representing Iowa, by all appearances doesn't get donations from 'big food' but does get consistent donations from Berkshire Hathaway, which I think is strange for a Democrat, but it's probably a normalized oddity.
Well if republiQan AG's are behind it, it must be a good idea