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Saturday, July 2nd, 2016

House Passes Koch-Backed Bill Aimed At Opening Doors To Foreign Donors, Dark Money

Author:     Kit O'Connell
Source:     Mint Press News
Publication Date:     June 28, 2016
 Link: House Passes Koch-Backed Bill Aimed At Opening Doors To Foreign Donors, Dark Money
Stephan:   It is the practice of the oligarchs to always operate within the law, which is not a problem since their Congressional liegemen obediently, as a vassal should, write the law to suit their masters. As this report makes clear they don't even bother to hide the corruption anymore. That is the level to which we have sunk. This is what Bernie Sanders was trying to change, and he was right that it is an urgent problem. We are destroying the democratic republic bequeathed to us.
David Koch, Executive Vice President of Koch Industries, Inc. Credit: AP Photo/Mark Lennihan

David Koch, Executive Vice President of Koch Industries, Inc.
Credit: AP Photo/Mark Lennihan

WASHINGTON — Rather than following the lead of prominent advocates for campaign finance reform, the House of Representatives recently voted to make American politics less transparent than ever.

The issue of the influence of so-called “dark money” on politics — hidden, high-dollar donations made possible by reforms to campaign finance law like the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision — is receiving renewed attention this election cycle thanks to successful awareness-raising campaigns by presidential candidates like Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein, and legislators like Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

-1x-1A September poll by Bloomberg Politics found that 78 percent of Americans would like to see Citizens United overturned. And that opposition isn’t coming from just one corner; it’s consistent across the party spectrum, from Democrats […]

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