The "Citizens United v Federal Election Board" has really made of mess of campaign finance law, turning the odds in favor of the wealthiest people around the world, who predominately support the Republican party/platform. These multi-billionaires are more likely to contribute one million dollar to a super PAC, than your average Joe. One billion dollars can be expressed as a stack of 1,000 million dollar bills, so in this context, a contribution of one of these million dollar bills is pocket change to the super rich that fall in the wealthiest 99.9999999 percentile on the bell curve.
I believe there are limits, though, to how much influence this kind of super PAC money can buy. At some point the public will become so saturated with political ads, they will block them out of there conscience. However, the sub conscience is another matter. LOL #---------------------------------------------- Excerpt: Newly disclosed details of the millions of dollars flowing into political groups are highlighting not just the scale of donations from corporation and unions but also the secrecy surrounding “super PACs” seeking to influence the presidential race. Groups supportive of each party employed a technique that allows them to cloak the identities of many of their donors. Those groups, including Crossroads and Priorities USA, have affiliates that are organized as nonprofit organizations known as 501(c)(4) groups, which can raise unlimited money but do not have to reveal their donors. Donors wishing to remain anonymous have the option of making their contributions to those nonprofit groups, which raised tens of millions of dollars in 2011, according to officials at the groups. “While we now know some names of some people giving megabucks, we know nothing about the funders of the nonprofits,” said Ellen S. Miller, the executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, which advocates for greater transparency in political giving. “We don’t know what we don’t know.” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/us/politics/super-pac-filings-show-power-and-secrecy.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2 or http://tinyurl.com/83k5me4 #--------------------------------------------- Regards, LelandJ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/4f2ab14a.50...@mail.smvfp.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
