LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF KANSAS – Campaign Finance News.
Is money speech? With the decision Citizens United v. FEC, the Supreme Court ended years of efforts to keep our elections balanced. Wealthy entities such as unions, individuals and corporations (including some outside the U.S.!) got unlimited freedom to spend on American elections through lobbying and advertising. As a result, campaign spending rose 427% in the 2010 elections alone, and spending in the 2012 elections may reach over $8 billion
The US Supreme Court said that spending money on an election is the same as free speech. What is YOUR VIEW?
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I don’t think any entity, personal or corporate, should be able to fund a candidate without limits. I don’t think a corporation should have the same rights as a single individual. I think that money can buy our votes only if we limit outselves to watching slick ads for candidates—but this ruling made the job of getting real information about a candidate harder. I want to know what we can do to get this overturned.
The role of money and campaign finance has distorted the political landscape. I hear a politician say “Job killing… ” and I know they are referring to their jobs not regular people’s jobs, since they are under such fund raising pressure they are beholding to the wealthy. Spending money on campaigning is a waste. The supreme court’s decision to equate money to speech is flawed. If it is a necessary evil to get around this bad decision by the supreme court, a constitutional amendment to rid us of this blight on the political process is needed.