Citizens United impact

Last year's Citizens United decision by the U.S. Supreme Court removed a decades-old ban on independent political spending that uses corporate treasury dollars. Will the major result of this decision be a flood of corporate money pouring into federal candidate campaigns? Or is the big problem that more corporate money is going to trade associations and other groups? How does the Citizens United ruling affect Oregon politics? How does the Citizens United decision affect the viability of campaign finance reform options? What other reforms are needed?
Democracy reform expert Janice Thompson of Common Cause Oregon talks about these issues in this clip from the June 3, 2011 program of the City Club of Eugene.

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• campaign
• finance
• reform