Several prominent news organizations have reported that Michael Bloomberg has, so far, flooded the airwaves
with some $400 million worth of campaign ads, all of which paid out of his own very deep pockets. These ads seem to be having a tremendous
effect on the populace-at-large’s voting selection, putting Bloomberg in second
place in most Democratic polls.
So these questions arise:
- Can, indeed should, power,
especially the power of the presidency, be sold to the highest bidder?
- Is this not shades of Citizens
United* but in a singular form?
- Is this a further example of
my Capitalism Gone Awry® complaint?
Give us your take on money in politics.
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*Wiki: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010), is a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning campaign finance. The Court held that the free speech clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting independent expenditures for political communications by corporations, including nonprofit corporations, labor unions, and other associations.
In a majority opinion joined by four other justices,
Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy held that the Bipartisan Campaign
Reform Act's prohibition of all independent expenditures by corporations and
unions violated the First Amendment's
protection of free speech.
