Dick Murphy Quotes
I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials.
The Citizens United case held that it was unconstitutional to limit the amount of money that corporations could spend political campaigns.
At the time this was a very widely held, bipartisan view. See {634818} . Given statements like this, TR if he were alive today would never be able to get the Republican Nomination for President; nor could he obtain the Democratic Nomination because of his view on the military, expansionism, defense spending and war.
Not only both parties agreed on the evil of corporate money in politics, but there was not even a single dissent on this point. Also, the President was in agreement {634816}. A century later, there were only a handful of senators who did not think that corporate money was critical in politics. This was a flip flop for BOTH major parties.
He had been serving as a University President. One change was the unlimited corporate funds that could then be donated to campaigns by corporations. “Super-Pacs” were one of these vehicles. Kerrey refused to use them. His opponent did not. His opponent was able to spend much more money on his campaign. Kerrey lost.
Richard M. Murphy is a former American politician who served as the 33rd Mayor of San Diego, California from 2000 to 2005.
