Fina and Campaign Finance
by Kitty Felde
In Episode 3, Papa says, “It takes a lot of money to run for Congress."
Fina lists all the things a political campaign spends its money on:
FINA: All those lawn signs and bumper stickers … and donuts for the volunteers who go door to door to register voters and ask them to vote for Arturo Mendoza! Volunteers sure eat a lot of donuts.
PAPA: They’re doing the hard work, Fina. Grass roots democracy, you could say.
FINA: They should call it donut democracy!”
Then there’s the outside spending. There’s been no limit on how much PACs, or political action committees, can raise and spend on campaigns since the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.