Kevin Kreneck
Nick Penniman and Wendell Potter, wrote in the The Los Angeles Times OP-ED Section, this article. Nick Penniman and Wendell Potter are coauthors of the book “Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It.”
Campaign finance is arguably the breakout issue of this election year. Democratic Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton both rail constantly against Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision that opened up election spending to corporations and super PACs. On the GOP side, candidates' super PACs have garnered as much news media scrutiny as the candidates themselves.
This might seem like music to the ears of those who worry about how money dominates politics. But Citizens United is only the harmony, not the melody of that tune. The much greater threat to America's hallowed system of self-government remains the day-to-day routine of “hard money” fundraising.
They end with:
Focusing so intensely on one court case makes it harder to gain attention, and momentum, for other, more effective reforms. The next time you hear someone talking about Citizens United, you might remind them that super PACs are only 15% of the problem.
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