"That's really the problem here — the whole notion of corporations spending unlimited funds," said Donald Simon, counsel for Democracy 21, a nonpartisan group favoring greater campaign restrictions.
If her best art before Lennon encouraged a Zen-like dissolution of thought, after Lennon she attached that refusal of distinction and dualism to a greater campaign for world peace, waged not in galleries but in the mass media.
"If the organization had continued running ads attacking Obama without containing express advocacy they would have had to disclose all their donors dating back to the beginning of 2011," said Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, which fights for greater campaign finance transparency.
Thanks to his vastly greater campaign chest, and his superior get-out-the-vote mechanisms, he could win all three, painting the whole of America's north-eastern quadrant Democratic blue.It is probably the South, though, that will be most closely watched on election night.
This all seems to be part of a greater campaign to increase revenue for the social media giant in 2015.
Mah, a former top Democrat on the state House elections committee, said the state legislature has considered greater campaign finance disclosures for the outside groups, but the measure has been routinely shot down by conservative Republicans who control the state House.
