From my friend and first principal:
"Our democracy is in trouble, and here's why. In the 1960s, the Supreme Court in Baker v Carr determined that election districts had to be of proportional size, and the principle of one person, one vote was established in law. This week, in McCutcheon, and four years earlier, in Citizens United, the Supreme Court now says that rather than one person, one vote, we now have one dollar, one vote. Money constitutes speech, and the two brothers named Koch now have the equivalent of 94 million votes - what they spent last year in political contests. This is wrong and a corruption of our democracy. "
---Denis Smith
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