In the fight to clean up campaign finance laws, Golden’s at the forefront

The Bangor Daily News Jan 7. editorial, " Maine Democrats ride wave of campaign cash," points out that in the 2018 elections, outside groups supporting Democrats outspent their Republican counterparts in Maine. But it should also consider what Democrats are doing to fix the broken campaign finance system once elected.

So far, Rep. Jared Golden, Maine's newest member of Congress, is fighting to remove the scourge of special interest money in politics.

Since the 2010 Citizens United decision, outside groups, mega-donors and corporations have been emboldened to spend unlimited and often undisclosed money in politics.

But candidates cannot control these groups or their spending.

What candidates can do, once elected, is fight to fix the system by supporting legislation to limit the influence of these groups.

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