How is Donald Trump managing to receive $1 million bribes (by a more polite name, of course) for a dinner at his Florida lair?
What is Elon Musk using to offer voters in state elections $1 million for their votes?
How is Vivek Ramaswamy flooding televisions in Ohio with his campaign for governor over a year out from any election?
What is spreading like an epidemic into local races like those for mayor of Boston and New York — with Andrew Cuomo in New York seeming to skirt the rules by using this entity as if it were his campaign, and one billionaire dumping $1 million into attacking a candidate in Boston?
If you said "Super PACs," you're right! Click here to tell your state to get rid of them!
A list of the reforms needed by the U.S. election system could fill, and has filled, many a book. But the fundamental reforms without which no others will have the needed impact are:
- Eliminating bribery,
- Providing fair media coverage -- not incessant, costly campaign ads.
The people of the state of Maine voted overwhelmingly last November to limit the amount of money an individual can give to a Super PAC. While there are serious limits on what an individual can pay to an electoral candidate's campaign, a political action committee called a Super PAC can spend unlimited money promoting a candidate and can take unlimited money from individuals -- or can in the state of OH but not any longer in Maine.
Click here to tell OH's governor and legislators that we need this same reform now.
A circuit court in Washington D.C. ruled in 2010 that corruption could not possibly exist in giving money to a Super PAC. There are two major problems with that ruling:
- Everyone lacking a law degree knows it's nonsense.
- The U.S. Justice Department in 2023 prosecuted Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) for making a deal with a man in exchange for his "contribution" to a Super PAC, which proves that Super PACs can, indeed, breed corruption.
Let's build the momentum to fix this nationally by fixing it in more states.
