The Inside Story of How Citizens United Damages Lawmaking
I clipped in the last paragraph. It’s pretty frightening. Ten to one? Or worse? Look at this exact point the only check against this imbalance is the middle and the left raise about the same amount of money. Long term we must have legislative relief on this. That means a President steps up and presses hard. Probably not Pres. Obama but the next one. Link I said above think 2016.
The Democratic operative guessed that at this point, Republicans may be taking in 100 corporate dollars for every one that reaches Democrats. “We don’t really know — it’s at least 10-to-1.” She added, “The truth is Democrats don’t get much [501(c)(4)] corporate money, and that’s because their interests often aren’t aligned. I’d gladly have c4s shut down — that would be a huge boon for us.”
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