Jeb Bush is Destroying Our Laughable Campaign Finance Laws
via The Week
We’ve seen a flurry of presidential campaign announcements over the last several weeks: Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee. Oh my.
But there’s still at least one big notable absence. Jeb Bush, the first candidate to actually declare he was exploring a presidential bid, seems in no hurry to formally launch one. Instead, Bush has put in motion a plan that’s effectively wrecking what’s left of our flimsy campaign finance laws.
Bush is taking the time before his formal announcement to build a super PAC that Politico says “would be unprecedented in its size and scope.” The group, called Right to Rise, is expected to raise more than $100 million by the end of this month, and its budget may dwarf that of Bush’s eventual official campaign.
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