Hi, this is Alonzo Bowden and welcome to episode 73 of my podcast, Who's Paying Attention?

There's a lot going on. There's a lot to cover. So I guess we'll start out by following the money.

As you probably know, in what will be known as the McCutcheon decision, the Supreme Court has removed more limits on campaign contributions.

Now, you know, this is great because the rich have been totally unrepresented in our political system.

I mean, they have no power, no access, and have been treated so poorly that it's good the Supreme Court is looking out for him.

What the McCutcheon decision says is there is no more maximum limit on how many candidates you can contribute money to.

There's a campaign finance limit of $5,200.

That's how much any individual can give to any single candidate during a two-year election cycle.

And up until now, that same individual donor was limited to $123,200 per cycle.

And the Supreme Court said, that's ridiculous. How can you limit someone to only giving

$123,000 to politicians over two years? I mean, that's that's barely enough to spread any influence.

So they've removed that limit and you can donate as much as you want and influence as many races

as you want nationwide and good for them, good for them.

Because, you know, the Constitution and fairness and laws and all that have really been getting in the way of campaign contributions and politicians.

You know how bad this decision is? John McCain is against its decision. Okay, once again,

you couldn't find an older conservative than John McCain, but I guess you can because Mitch McConnell, who is

the head of the GOP and the Senate, said, this just respects the constitutional rights of individuals

to decide how many to support. So listen, you poor people, you want representation, you step up your donations.

That's right. What's wrong with you people? You get some money and you start donating.

Think you're going to be represented for free? This is Congress. This is the United States government.

Damn it. Unbelievable. But then again, not unbelievable. I mean, they struck down voter rights and, you know, they're allowing racism back into elections and so on. So why not allow more money at the same time?

You know what's really great about this?

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