Fair Elections/Campaign Finance Could foreign spending on elections really be legal? Rick Hasen thinks the U.S. Supreme Court will blink and keep foreign spending bans in place. Congress Koch Industries and network of Republican donors plan ahead The New York Times got its hands on a list of invitees to a January event held by the Koch Brothers with big time donors--”a confab of hedge fund executives, Republican donors, free-market evangelists and prominent members of   the New York social circuit.” Predator’s ball Another great piece from Katrina vanden Heuvel on the outside money and big corporations funding our elections. She also quotes Bill Moyers’ speech at the Common Cause dinner. And finishes with, “This, in the end, is the current front of a historic struggle. Who governs America -- the powerful few or the many, money or citizens?” Safe Dems hoard campaign cash Their seats are safe, and they have money to spare, but some veteran Democrats are sitting tight with their money. It’s time to campaign against political ads “Unfortunately, the Republicans have blocked legislation to undo the Supreme Court's handiwork. Sadly, it appears that the party of Lincoln is now the party of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations.”