FORUM: Constitution Day: Dark money, free speech and the right to know-David Berman, Ph.D.
Fisher Memorial Chapel, Rockford University 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, United StatesDark money. The name itself carries ominous undertones, undertones that critics of this relatively new campaign-finance phenomenon of hidden contributions claim to reflect a genuine threat to democracy. Its defenders argue that the dark money approach to funding political campaigns is merely an extension of Americans’ basic right to free speech. In this Constitution Day...