Jack E. Lohman once said, “No matter what your social issue, if you want to solve it get the money out of politics. Only then will lawmakers vote for their people rather than their pocketbooks.” Money corrupts politics in many different ways, most are un-known to the common person whom either participates in the voting booth at each election or chooses not to. The contributions being made to candidates are ridiculously high and are obliviously not in the best interest of the American voter. In the Book, “Selling Out: How Big Corporate Money Buys Elections, Rams Through Legislation, and Betrays Our Democracy”, Mark Greene describes these problems in detail and shows the correlation between the money and the many individual problems within the government dealing with the money. It also states that the legislation being passes to curve the finances in politics don’t work. The whole system between the money and the candidates presently keeps going in circles. The citizens in this country that are considered in the lower class economically either don’t understand that the people in power are the people with money or simply just are the influences of the peo

Campaign Financing is out of control in today’s political races. Candidates are taking money from wherever and whomever they can get it. So-called “Soft money” is flowing through elections without care or caution. People who make these contributions do not share the views of the average citizen, so politicians end up representing the wrong people or just a select few. Money decides races, sometimes leaving the better man but lighter spender out of an arrangement. Candidates make decisions based on what will help them financially then what is better for the people. Contributions by industry are made not in the interest of the people, sometimes hurting them in ways they don’t even know. No matter what the opposition might possibly say campaign finance reform is needed urgently to keep our democracy as our founders intended it.

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Ruy Teixeira, American Prospect, Campaign Financing, Mark Greene, White Christian, Jack Lohman, finance reform, Paul Starr, campaign finance, people power, share views, powerful people, campaign contributions, people contributions, businesses corporations, today’s society, campaign finance reform,