If money is speech, do we as citizens have a right to know who is speaking? Secret campaign cash should have no place in our American democracy. However, since the Supreme Court's January decision (Citizens United vs. the FCC), we are seeing huge sums of money from secret sources going into campaign advertising, much of it the negative advertising that poisons the airways.
LETTER: Voters deserve to know where money is coming from
Friday, October 22, 2010 | 3:12 p.m. CDT
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