Who’s Buying our Midterm Elections? ( Bill Moyers )
How can this system possibly function as a democracy?
Transcript and video below:
March 21, 2014
In the coming weeks, the Supreme Court is expected to issue another big decision on campaign finance, one that could further open the floodgates to unfettered and anonymous contributions, just as the Citizens United case did four years ago.
This week Bill speaks with investigative journalists Kim Barker and Andy Kroll about the role of dark money and the wealthy donors behind it in this years midterm elections.
Already, three times as much money has been raised for this years elections as four years ago, when the Citizens United decision was announced. This is the era of the empowered one percenter. Theyre taking action and theyre becoming the new, headline players in this political system, Kroll tells Moyers. Kim Barker adds, People want influence. Its a question of whether were going to allow it to happen, especially if were going to allow it to happen and nobody even knows who the influencers are.
Barker is an investigative reporter with the independent, non-profit news organization ProPublica and Andy Kroll is a journalist in the Washington bureau of Mother Jones magazine.
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