Back in November, ultra rich mortgage banker Kevin Stitt – a man who used his personal wealth to buy his way into the Oklahoma governor’s office in 2018 – formed a task force to “rigorously assess” the integrity of Oklahoma elections.
One item on the agenda was to “identify any campaign finance loopholes that need to be closed,” like, for example, the ability of dark money groups to accept unlimited campaign contributions from special interest groups, corporations, and rich men with dominant eyebrows, and then turn around and run ads in support of candidates they’re – wink, wink – not collaborating with.
Thanks to the Citizens United ruling, it’s an issue that the entire nation is facing. It’s also one that will likely never be solved because the people who write and enact our laws also happen to be the people who benefit the most from the crooked system.