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Hi Joe - I certainly respect your opinion, though I am not sure why one would embrace being mislead by nameless people.

Campaign Laws don't necessarily apply to the concept of Dark Money.

For additional information you can look into:

- 501(C) organizations

- How "money = speech" came into being (and the direct link to the "Lewis Powell Memo")

- The unprecidented way in which the Supreme Court came to its Citizen United decision (sending the plaintiff back to rescope the case)

- The supreme court McCutcheon case

- Dark Money has been around for quite some time - the recent SCOTUS campaign law cases (esp Citizens United) just made things easier.

Here is a great and very recent example of dark money preventing the will of the voters (it should not be surprising that the vote was to reduce corruption in their state. Dark Money tried to influence the vote and are now trying to work around the voters victory on election day)

http://bulletin.represent.us/south-dakota-gop-uses-emergency-powers-repeal-anti-corruption-act-passed-voters/

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