Super PACs make mockery of campaign finance reform
Via ctpost
When a candidate for office gets handed $6.5 million in public money to run a campaign over about four months, it seems that should be enough, right? But no.
Both of the major party candidates for governor of Connecticut stand to benefit from private groups that can shell out thousands and thousands more.
Those thousands of dollars stream through outside groups called super PACs created in Connecticut to help Democratic incumbent Gov.Dannel P. Malloy or Republican challenger Tom Foley, of Greenwich, win in November.
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