re: #303 goddamnedfrank

He can write to them. He can talk to them. He can have his lawyers and marketing people send research materials, etc. What he shouldn’t be able to do is give the politician more than what a middle class family can afford to spend on influencing legislation, let alone spending more than it costs that family to put four children through college.

A rich guy can send off a contribution to an issues PAC that is more in a single donation than most people can hope to accumulate in an entire lifetime. This same contribution can easily be a completely insignificant fraction of the rich guy’s wealth.

I have a big problem with this scenario.

I can barely accept the existence of such levels of wealth disparity. I totally refuse to accept that these differences in power should be brought to bear on politics without significant restriction.