The saddest thing about Hillary’s victory and probable nomination is that any serious discussion of campaign finance reform is dead. The outrage over Citizens United and McCutcheon has been swept under the rug due to the actions of the DNC and the Clinton campaign. President Obama’s legacy of attempting some type of campaign finance reform has been abandoned by the DNC and by the Clinton campaign.
The last barriers preventing corporate dark money from flooding the Democratic party have been removed, as the DNC – chaired by Debbie Wasserman Schultz – dismantled the last of the prohibitions on receiving money from lobbyists and political action committees.
The ban was in place since 2008 and associated heavily with President Obama’s promise to change how corporate money would work in Washington D.C.
We are going to change how Washington works. Lobbyists and corporate PACs will not fund my party. They will not run our White House. And they will not drown out the voice of the American people when I’m president of the United States of America.
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I find it hard to imagine either the Republican nominee or the Clinton Campaign will make a big issue of campaign finance reform in the general election. The DNC has been in the bag for Hillary from the git-go. So much so that they abandoned Obama’s attempt at reform in order to funnel more money to Hillary. So they sure won’t speak up. The only voices left for reform, Bernie’s and his supporters, have been drowned out by the media and the DNC. With their victory in the primary’s, the establishment DNC has convinced itself that buying elections is just fine. I can only hope that Bernie’s voice can continue to rise above the big money donors, but I am not terribly optimistic. I know I will continue to speak up and otherswill too.