Campaign Finance Reform is Dead, Long Live Clean Elections
After our debate in March on campaign finance reform and clean elections in March, the the Supreme Court's decision on McCain-Feinfold has made any serious limitations on spending by corporations and the wealthy almost impossible to implement.
Between FEC v. Wisconsin Right to Life, which will unleash a mass of corporate "issue" ads around election time and last year's Randall v. Sorrell, which struck down Vermont's tight limits on campaign contributions, the Court is increasingly making any limits on spending by monied interests impossible.
Which returns us to public financing of elections as the ONLY serious approach to ending corporate dominance of elections.
