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The Campaign Fundraising Industry

Posted by PAUL SILVER in At TMV.
Jul 1st, 2008 | Comments

The Boston Globe has this revealing profile of how a Firm gets big cut of campaign donations. Apparently the candidates realize only a modest percentage of the money raised in their name.

So along with special interests trying to game our system of public policy we have the political operatives who make their money off of the current private campaign financing fiasco. I suspect that the over whelming majority of candidates who are motivated by service would welcome a path to election that does not include pandering to narrow special interests AND political insiders who control the flow of money. Parallel to our addiction to oil is our addiction to an escalating cycle of privately financed campaigns.

We do have a choice if only a critical mass of good people would come together and say STOP!

  • runasim
    My father used to say, ad nauseum, that money is the root of all evil.
    I wouldn't go that far, but these days the lust for money does engender a lot of evil.

    How to engender that crtical mass to say STOP?
    I'm at a loss., because for every corruption of the soul at high levels, there seems to be an army or grass-roots enablers.

    Sometimes I think we do need a Messiah. Not a politician, not a CEO, just a Messiah.
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