Everyone should have learned from Mitt Romney that money alone cannot buy an office. But for some reason, the general collective cannot let go this idea that this system is bought and sold--and so we have created special and discriminatory rules for races involving self-financed candidates who rack in the bucks.
If a candidate puts $350,000 or more into one's own campaign, the opponent may TRIPLE the legal contribution cap. That is $6,900 per person.
Understandably, Democrat millionaire Jack Davis--who has lost twice in unseating congressional incumbent Tom Reynolds of upstate New York despite his fortune--followed his case to the Supreme Court, where he rightfully claimed the First Amendment has been violated. Money is political speech is free speech. End of story.
The Supreme Court is still pending on the matter, but I have to hand it to Scalia who asked if now we have to force more eloquent candidates to talk with pebbles in their mouth to "level the playing field"?
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