So where are all the folks outraged by the impact of out of state money? Bottom line it's time for campaign finance reform--and term limits (in spite of the fact that term limits are the reason Kristi is spreading her "war" chest around the country). According to OpenSecrets this election cycle, over 15 billion dollars have been spent by those seeking political office. Consider if you spent $1000 per day it would take about 2740 years to spend 1 billion dollars--and of course if you earned even a pittance of interest on a billion dollars, say three percent, you'd earn 30 million annually and could never spend it all. It's obscene and incontrovertible evidence of the impact of money on elections thanks to the Supreme Court decision in Citizen's United that corporations are people. Huh?
So where are all the folks outraged by the impact of out of state money? Bottom line it's time for campaign finance reform--and term limits (in spite of the fact that term limits are the reason Kristi is spreading her "war" chest around the country). According to OpenSecrets this election cycle, over 15 billion dollars have been spent by those seeking political office. Consider if you spent $1000 per day it would take about 2740 years to spend 1 billion dollars--and of course if you earned even a pittance of interest on a billion dollars, say three percent, you'd earn 30 million annually and could never spend it all. It's obscene and incontrovertible evidence of the impact of money on elections thanks to the Supreme Court decision in Citizen's United that corporations are people. Huh?