money in politics

Lawrence Lessig vs Mike Simpson (R-ID)-- What It Means To The Rest Of Us

It's almost a truism of today's politics that "one man, one vote" has been replaced with "one dollar, one vote." We'll know we've recaptured our democratic form of government when that changes, when we no longer have a Supreme Court-- not to mention the two other branches of government-- made up of corporate whores whose idea of "balance" involves balancing the rights and privileges of corporations and Big Business against the rights and privileges of American citizens.

How Citizens United may not have played out the way we thought, and how Corporate America lost control of the GOP, but don't worry it's still about the money

by Ken"How did corporate America lose control of the Republican Party?" asks NYT business and economics columnist Eduardo Porter at the start of his "Economic Scene" column today, "Business Losing Clout in a G.O.P. Moving Right, and I guess that is his subject.

And... They're Off! Congressional Candidates Are Vacuuming Up Contributions And Corporate Bribes For The 2014 Elections

Electing rich Republicans and New Dems won't help-- quite the contraryRecently I asked a very plausible candidate running for Congress why the DCCC wasn't helping him raise money. He told me that they wanted him to raise $500,000 by himself first and that then they'd revisit the discussion. Do you know enough people in raise $500,000 to run for Congress?