QOTD: the candidates are proxies
by digby
“This is the unfortunate reality of Citizens United,” said California Common Cause policy advocate Phillip Ung. “It’s opened up this new era of spending where we have interest groups going after each other and the candidates are being used as proxies.”
Read the story of a California race in which two special business interests are fighting to own a congressional seat.
This could be the wave of the future. At some point we’ll just cut out the middle-man and elect the industry. They’ll assign one of their employees to congress and even pick up the tab, which we’ll call fiscal responsibility. Win-win!
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