Robert Faturechi and Jonathan Stray, ProPublica - A growing number of political committees known as super PACs have become instruments of single donors, according to a ProPublica analysis of federal records. During the 2014 election cycle, $113 million—16 percent of money raised by all super PACs—went to committees dominated by one donor. That was quadruple their 2012 share.
The rise of single-donor groups is a new example of how changes in campaign finance law are giving outsized influence to a handful of funders.
The trend may continue into 2016. National Review recently reported that Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s bid for the Republican presidential nomination would be boosted not by one anointed super PAC but four, each controlled by a single donor or donor family.
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The best Republic money can buy. In fact the best of the Republic is still a very weak democracy, buy design it is made this way. For a better longer term future it is democracy design reform and population/pollution control otherwise global third world chaos.
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