"We know that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"

- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

If part one was not bad enough, consider these facts, comments and positions.

1.  In 2012 a Brennan Center poll revealed that nearly 70% of Americans believe Super PAC spending will lead to corruption.

2.  Nearly half of the $300 million in outside spending in 2010 was spent by only 10 groups!

3.  Outside groups spent over $1 billion in 2012.

4.  The 2016 election is predicted to be the most expensive in American history - potentially DOUBLING the amount spent in 2012.

5.  American Crossroads, backed by Karl Rove, spent over $90 million in the 2012 election cycle.

6.  Of the top ten "richest" Super PACS in 2012, 9 were backing Republicans.

7.  In the 2012 elections alone, right-wing Super PACS and dark-money groups like Karl Rove's American Crossroads, and Crossroads GPS, the Koch Brothers' Americans for Prosperity, and Mitt Romney's Restore Our Future spent almost $500 million.

8.  More than 8 in 10 Americans in a poll by the Associated Press and the National Constitution Center support limits on the amount of money given to groups that are trying to influence U.S. elections.

9.  Of the $1.28 billion in outside spending reported to the FEC in the 2012 election cycle, $299 million was "dark money" that cannot be traced back to an original source.

10.  According to a study of 467 congressional races in 2012, the candidate with more money won the race 91% of the time.

"Money! It is money! Money! Money! Not ideas, nor principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics"

- Senator Robert Byrd

Note:  All information used in this article comes from People for the American Way.  You can find them at www.pfaw.org

Terry Grant, President OPWU AFL-CIO