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Jan/15

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The Influence of Money in Politics

Big MoneyOn January 16, 2015, Alex DeMots wrote on the Center for American Progress website about “the dominance of unaccountable and often anonymous, big-money contributors in political campaigns” being an increasing problem.  He goes on to cite “the 2014 midterm elections were the most expensive in history with more than $3.6 billion in spending.  A significant amount of this spending was conducted by groups that are ostensibly independent of candidates, but many of these so-called ‘independent’ organizations’ — often referred to as ‘dark-money’ groups — do not disclose their donors.”

What’s needed is disclosure.  Voters deserve to know the interests paying for the political advertising they are inundated by. Unfortunately, a Republican-controlled Congress isn’t likely to want to do this as they benefit substantially from these activities.

It will be interesting to see what the Republican-controlled Minnesota House does this session. With the DFL-controlled Senate and Governor Dayton, we should be protected from the worst of things. What do people think Congressman Paulsen will do?

You can read Mr. DeMots’ post here.

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