"This is going to be a year of unprecedented amounts of corrupting influence money flowing in Washington, dangerous new secret funds being used to affect federal elections and massive blatant violations of the campaign finance laws," said Fred Wertheimer, president of the nonpartisan advocacy group Democracy 21, who has studied the issue for 25 years.
This would permit a donor to obtain more than $2 million worth of corrupting influence.
"The point of religious terrorism is to purify the world of corrupting influences," she explains.
It flies in the face of the state's history of the corrosive influence of corporate spending and rejects the decision of Montana voters to rid their state of this corrupt influence.
The campaign was widely seen as intended to deflect criticisms from Zuma and the Gupta family, which has been accused of using corrupt influence to get favorable government deals.
It is not easy, by any constitutional or legislative enactments, to shut out all, or even many of the avenues of undue or corrupt influence upon the human mind.
Third, and most important, Sanders has truth on his side: he is the one who has laid bare the reality of gross income inequality and the corrupt influence of billionaires on the political process.
For progressives, public opinion would reach its fulfillment with the formation of a modern executive famously celebrated by Theodore Roosevelt, as "the steward of the public welfare"—freed from the provincial, special, and corrupt influence of political parties and interest groups.
To help curb the corrupt influence of political money, the court has too cleverly maintained for a generation that money doesn't actually speak; it only enables speech.
Optimists saw a wholesale shift in the democratic process, away from huge corporate donors and the corrupt influence of lobbyists.
We must return the public to our political system and end the corrupt influence of selfish interests that have abandoned our shared responsibilities.
