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SuperPACs are Debasing Our Democracy

Submitted by Monica Rober on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 14:35

Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen, writes about the consequences of the Citizens United v. FEC Supreme Court decision."We now have faux "Americans" carrying out a political assault on real America. Americans for Prosperity, Americans for Job Security, American Solutions, American Crossroads, American Action Network and the American Future Fund are among the leading organizations spending hundreds of millions of dollars in total from corporations and deep-pocketed billionaires to tilt this election. "Much of this inflow would not have been possible without the Citizens United decision. But as important as the specific legal consequence of Citizens United was its signal to business interests that Wild West rules now prevail for elections: No holds barred, and whoever has the biggest gun and most bullets will win."Read the full article in The Hill here.

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