Notational

anticapitalist:

President Barack Obama supports changing the U.S. Constitution to keep private sector dollars from buying elections, campaign officials told Raw Story on background during a conference call with reporters Tuesday.

The decision stands in contrast with the president’s recent embrace of super PAC campaigning, a key feature of the Supreme Court’s controversial ruling in the Citizens United case. Super PACs are third-party groups not affiliated with political campaigns that are allowed to take and spend unlimited sums of money for or against candidates for public office.

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That same path to reform was recently endorsed by Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig in his book “Republic, Lost,” although he warned that Congress is not willing to commit such a change.

“We’ve been part of a process to get many people in many states to push their state legislatures to call for a convention, so that the convention can propose the changes that we as the American people need to consider,” he said.

Damn straight. Get money out of politics. Or at least, try.