By Yaёl Bizouati-Kennedy
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Corporations, their owners, employees and affiliates have been playing an enormous role in elections, especially since Jan. 21, 2010, when the Supreme Court overruled the prohibition on corporate independent expenditures in the case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (FEC). Since, corporations can contribute unlimited amounts to campaign spending, according to The Campaign Legal Center (CLC).
“The Court assumed that unlimited corporate campaign spending would pose no threat of corruption or the appearance of corruption because it would be ‘independent,’” CLC said on its website, adding that, “It has become clear in the years since that voters are not getting enough information about the true sources of campaign spending and this supposedly independent spending in support of candidates or their campaigns is often intentionally coordinated.”
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- DNC Services Corp.: $367,336.Common Power PAC: $195,000.Washington Democratic Sen. Patty Murray: $87,925.Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock: $67,997.Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee: $63,305.National Republican Congressional Committee: $61,611.Washington Democratic Rep. Kim Schrier: $54,406.National Republican Senatorial Committee: $52,023.Mind the Gap: $51,000.
