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To: Copeland who wrote (6208)	12/23/2011 8:36:10 PM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 85487

That may involve public funding of a nominee and/or limitations on campaign spending. Fat chance on that one. The current activist Supreme Court put a stake through the heart of any possibility of campaign finance reform with Citizens United. They had to solicit a broadening of the appeals brief in that case to get it done, but they did their job on that one, just like they did in 2000. As things stand, it'd take a constitutional amendment to do anything meaningful with campaign financing. Fat chance on that, too, though there is an amendment floating around to deprive corporations of their human rights. Don't think it's getting much traction, although Stephen Colbert got a related proposition (briefly) on the ballot in S. Carolina.