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Mike Huckabee Evades Campaign Finance Ethics

As a presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee has needed to work with campaign finance laws, which restrict campaign contributionsÉ except in the state of Virginia. Even though he lives hundreds of miles outside of Virginia, Mike Huckabee set up a campaign political action committee in Virginia, so that he could accept unlimited donations from individuals - even if those individuals did not live in Virginia themselves.

So, what does Mike Huckabee's political action committee have to do with Virginia? Nothing at all. It's just that Virginia's campaign finance laws make it a great place for wealthy people to buy themselves a presidential candidate. Oops. Did I say "buy themselves a presidential candidate"? Perhaps I should have said, "buy themselves influence with a presidential candidate".

Mike Huckabee uses the shadowy world of unrestricted campaign donations in Virginia because he doesn't care if rich people purchase influence over his presidential campaign and, if he wins, his presidency. Progressives are against this kind of influence. Progressives have been demanding more open government, accessible to ordinary people regardless of money. Mike Huckabee's big money campaign shows why we need the progressives' more egalitarian vision of government in the White House as a counter to corruption.

From Irregular Times