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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: koan who wrote (68890)1/27/2010 11:34:56 PM
From: Jack of All Trades  Read Replies (1) of 149317
 
My understanding one of the reasons the court ruled as they did is that one could not "pool" money together to run for office. The money had to come from "one" source.

So unless you were rich (ie Mayor Bloomberg) citizens could not pool their money to support a candidate.

This left the ability of for the average citizen to run for office locked out against people with more money.

Do I agree that corporations should be allowed to dump as much money as they want? No, but the way the law was written was not favorable either.

JMO
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