Thursday, February 2, 2012

"Pro-Romney super PAC rakes in cash from Calif. donors"

If super political action committee dollars were votes in the Republican presidential primary, California would already have voted resoundingly for Mitt Romney.
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With California's presidential primary not until June, the state's role in the race is mainly that of an ATM, said Jessica Levinson, campaign finance scholar at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. Super PACs, she said, have allowed for a "shadow campaign finance system" that is detrimental to the political system.

"If money’s speech, then people with more money get more speech, and this is a fundamental problem in a representative democracy," Levinson said. "It’s giving people with money a megaphone in the current debate."

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