The history of the FEC and it's predecessor, the FERC, Congressional legislation and subsequent court decisions all reveal the attempts of elected officials and candidates to open contribution spigots from every direction (http://www.fec.gov/info/appfour.htm). The original attempts were meant to give Unioins more leeway to raise and fund PAC's, and later attempts, including Citizen's United all show a court bias towards finding backdoor solutions (and dimunition of individual, human Citizen's rights) with granting free speech enhancements to artificial constructs of law being the latest. Unless we, as Citizens, do what's necessary to stop the progession of American Democracy into something less responsive to the individual rights of people-it's Citizens-this will only get worse.
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