Enough of This Nonsense
The Supreme Court took up the battle over campaign finance this week, revisiting their 1976 finding that has turned free speech into the biggest cash-cow in Washington.
Enough, for god’s sake, we’ve had enough.
At issue is a Vermont law that sharply limits how much money state candidates can raise and spend. The purpose behind the Vermont legislation was twofold;
To head off the ever-increasing financial chasm between throwing one’s hat in the ring and the cost of the ring
To force the Supremes to revisit that thirty-year-ago ball that they dropped in the outfield of unintended consequence
For the percentage of Americans who were not even here thirty years ago, Buckley v. Valeo (the bobbled fly-ball) equates money with free speech and, disingenuously, knocks the legs out from under all of us who are not rich, but thought we somehow still had the right to speech.
Actually, we thought we had an equal right, but the Court said it wasn’t so in 1976, and they charmingly chose to say it in that b…