Fair Elections/Campaign Finance U.S. Supreme Court hijacks democracy American Sustainable Business Council founder David Brodwin has this op-ed on the need for Fair Elections SuperPACs are debasing our democracy Robert Weismann writes about SuperPACs, secret funding, and the need for DISCLOSE and Fair Elections. Congress/Campaign Secret donations pervert campaigns The Virginian-Pilot does not like all this secret money. Celinda Lake on Rachel Maddow Celinda Lake talked corporate influence on Rachel Maddow last night. Chamber president vows to ramp up political efforts Tom Donahue won’t be pushed around—the Chamber of Commerce plans to “ramp up” their political spending over the next few weeks. What were they doing before? GOP groups launch massive ad blitz GOP groups are launching a coordinated $50 million ad blitz this week. Very little of it will be disclosed. Jon Stewart on Fox News and foreign money to GOP ads Jon Stewart takes on all this foreign money stuff. News Corp. shareholder objects to GOP donations The Nathan Cummings Foundation, a progressive foundation with a small amount of stock in News Corp, has called on a “complete disclosure of all political spending” before the News Corp annual shareholders meeting on Friday. Wall Street pay heads for new high Wall Street is reporting record pay increases for its employees as revenues continue to skyrocket. Durbin: IRS should investigate crossroads Sen. Durbin has called on the IRS to investigate the tax status of groups “directing millions of dollars into political advertising without disclosing their funding sources.” Axelrod: We’ll keep pounding outside spending and foreign money The White House isn’t backing down on outside spending. "The debate is being directed that way as a kind of misdirection play by Karl and others who obviously don't want the focus on where their $150 million or $200 million is coming from,"