The WSJ has it that John McCain is getting around campaign finance limits by creating state victory funds in key states this election year: Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado, New Mexico, California, Ohio and Florida. This means contributors can effectively increase their contribution to McCain from $4,600 to $70,00.
Hope stations in the key states run something on it. To help out here’s some FREE resources on money in politics:
- A collection of sound bites from each of the candidates
- An extended interview with Jules Whitcover
- (Whitcover wrote the book No Way to Pick A President: How Money and Hired Have Debased American Elections).
- Here’s a super fast way to get local data on money in politics
- A feature (4:45) on the history of money in politics
- Everything we have so far