[Occupymendocino] Milking the Money Machine - NYTimes.com

[Mark Safron]

“…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.”

“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.”

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
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