Very soon in the state of Florida if you are able to make a sizeable monetary donation, you too can have your voice heard by a select group of state senators and representatives!!!
http://www.tampabay.com/...
the highlights:
"A year after passing it for the first time, the Florida Senate voted 30-9 to override the veto of Gov. Charlie Crist's of a bill that would allow political; leaders in the House and Senate the ability to raise unlimited amounts of money to steer into the campaigns of their handpicked candidates." (emphasis mine)
"Sen. Jack Latvala said that when leadership funds were originally outlawed in 1989 the goal was to reduce the influence of money in the system but, as a long-time political operative and former state senator, he believe that goal failed."
so this is something we established in the past to safe guard against money being the dominant force in politics, but since it isn't 100% effective...screw it may as well go to the highest bidder? That's a very interesting approach because our war on drugs hasn't gotten rid of all drugs, I wonder what the response to that knowledge would be?
Another really good write up of this revolting development:
http://www.tampabay.com/...