Could Citizens United Help Foreign Billionaires Buy This Election? An FEC Commissioner Speaks Out
http://democracynow.org - The release of the
Panama Papers comes amid growing concern about undisclosed campaign contributions here in the
United States, so-called dark money. Now, some members of the
Federal Election Commission are calling for greater enforcement of campaign finance regulations and a narrower interpretation of the
Citizens United ruling, which opened the floodgates for unlimited corporate spending on election campaigns. We speak with
FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub, whose op-ed in
The New York Times, "
Taking On
Citizens United," argues
Americans deserve assurances from
American corporations that they are not using the money of foreign shareholders to influence the country’s elections. She also calls for federal and state policymakers to ensure corporations are not being used as a front to allow foreign money to seep into
U.S. elections. The FEC is the government watchdog tasked with keeping federal elections fair, but it has come to a virtual standstill since its three
Democratic and three
Republican members are in partisan gridlock.
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