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Originally posted by smooth
I don't understand your problem with advertisements.
I have a problem with donors dumping money into people's pockets, but I don't see any justification for restricting donors rights to political speech. If a bunch of people, or one wealthy person, wants to spend millions on supporting a measure or a person, go for it.
The only restructing I support is making sure that money doesn't go into candidates' pockets and opening a minimum airspace for people to use who don't have the millions to pay for it.
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So, just because the money doesn't go into their pockets it can't possibly influence them? Allowing people to have a "minimum airspace" to make their points known will somehow counter the influence that can be exerted by groups spending tens of millions? Not likely.
These groups make it too easy to buy influence. That's one of the main reasons campaign finance reform was championed and that's what's being subverted. This Presidential election will have more spending on advertising than any in history and the spend will only grow in the future.