Alarming facts about Campaign Finance and 'Roberts' money -

[JohnWxy]

http://www.thenation.com/blog/165778/eleven-shocking-facts-about-campaign-finance


The amount of independent expenditure and electioneering communication spending by outside groups has quadrupled since 2006. [Center for Responsive Politics]

The percentage of spending coming from groups that do not disclose their donors has risen from 1 percent to 47 percent since the 2006 mid-term elections. [Center for Responsive Politics]

Campaign receipts for members of the House of Representatives totaled $1.9 billion in 2010—up from $781 million in 1998. [Committee for Economic Development]

Outside groups spent more on political advertising in 2010 than party committees—for the first time in at least two decades. [Center for Responsive Politics]

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[bemildred]

1. I'm hoping it will bring the issue of money in politics to a head. nt