Blunting the Impact of Big of Big Campaign Money Won’t Be Easy
Via Reboot Illinois
I’m not a big R&B fan, but as a good government watchdog I have to appreciate the O’Jays `74 classic, “For the Love of Money,” about the dangers of pursuing “the almighty dollar.”
The song could serve as an anthem for the sorry state of campaign finance today because money is still the driving force in our politics.
As the O’Jays crooned, “some people got to have it … some people really need it.”
And some campaigns definitely get it, in copious amounts, thanks to Citizens United, the Supreme Court’s controversial 2010 decision opening the floodgates to virtually unlimited political expenditures by corporations, unions, nonprofits and others.
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