<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass"><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentTopClass" style="line-height: 14px !important;"><i><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; font-size: 19px; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(50, 51, 51);">“…a tiny fraction of the American public, just 31,385 men and women making up 0.01 percent of the population, provided over a quarter of the $6 billion spent in federal campaigns that year.”</div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 19px; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(50, 51, 51);"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 19px; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(50, 51, 51);">“A tiny sliver of Americans who can afford to give tens of thousands of dollars in a single election cycle,” Drutman wrote, “have become the gatekeepers of public office in America.”</div></div></i></span></span></div><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass"><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentTopClass" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 14px !important;"><br></span><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareSharedContentClass" style="position: relative !important; font-size: 18px;"><div class="original-url"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/23/opinion/thomas-b-edsall-milking-the-money-machine.html?emc=edit_ty_20140723&nl=opinion&nlid=35653813&_r=0" style="font-size: 16px;">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/23/opinion/thomas-b-edsall-milking-the-money-machine.html?emc=edit_ty_20140723&nl=opinion&nlid=35653813&_r=0</a></div></span></span></body></html>