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In reply to the discussion: Keith Ellison: [View all]BainsBane
(53,035 posts)And that law has been set by SCOTUS. That doesn't relate to DNC Chair.
I think campaign finance is an enormously important issue, but we have seen the issue of reform of the law abandoned in favor of judgments about personal actions, all because one celebrity politician was able to raise unprecedented amounts of money from individual contributors. The issue is a systemic one, and it needs to be treated as such. Obviously the GE represented a major setback for that because Trump will not follow through on the reforms that Hillary proposed, but even among many progressives the issue of reform was dropped for attacks directed at individual politicians rather than reforming the system. That has set the issue back. As long as people make the issue small, and use it as a means of sloganeering rather than focusing on policy, they further the status quo of campaign fundraising.