It’s been almost two years since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which allows corporations to spend as much money on political campaigns as they like. This will be the first presidential election impacted by that decision, and we’re already seeing the influence exerted by Super PACs that are set up to support one candidate or another. It’s legalized corruption and a corrosive influence on a government that long ago lost its right to be called “of the people, by the people, for the people.”
Today on KTRS/St. Louis, I talked this over with Democracy 21‘s Fred Wertheimer, an outspoken advocate of overturning Citizens United, reducing the influence of the rich and powerful on our politics, and returning to public funding of presidential campaigns…
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