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SOURCE: The Atlantic
4/8/2021
The Man Who Waited 50 Years for This Moment
Fred Wertheimer has been battling the influence of money in politics since the 1970s. Writer George Packer asks if, at age 82, he will finally match his ideas to the political moment.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/3/2021
The Far Right’s Big Money Strategy Has Poisoned Our Politics
by Marc C. Johnson
The 1976 Supreme Court decision in Buckley v. Valeo ruled that spending money to influence a campaign is free speech, launching the era of big money in politics long before the much-maligned decision in Citizens United v. FEC.
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10/11/2020
Corporate Money Turns Democracy Upside Down in California Initiative Process
by James Thornton Harris
Intended as a tool to circumvent the power of big business in the state legislature, California's ballot initiative process has become yet another channel for the political influence of big money.
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SOURCE: New Yorker
4/12/2020
How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief
by Jane Mayer
Finally, someone who knows him very well told me, “Give up. You can look and look for something more in him, but it isn’t there. I wish I could tell you that there is some secret thing that he really believes in, but he doesn’t.”
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SOURCE: New York Times
3-19-14
The Koch brothers' historical defense of anonymous political donations
A spokesman for Koch Industries cited a 1958 Supreme Court case guaranteeing NAACP membership lists against state seizure.
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SOURCE: CS Monitor
4-3-13
Jonathan Zimmerman: Liberal Hypocrisy on Bloomberg's Moneyed Fight for Gun Control
Why aren’t liberals complaining, now that Mr. Bloomberg is showering his millions on candidates who back gun control and same-sex marriage, about a billionaire's influence?
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