Berman, Ari — Using Wealth to Deny Voting Rights
The financing of political campaigns is the subject of this, July 21, 2015, edition of Radio Curious. Our guest is Ari Berman, a contributing writer for The Nation Magazine, who writes regularly on election and voting rights issues. His May 19, 2015 article is titled “How the Money Primary is Undermining Voting Rights.”
Berman asks: “When the wealthiest Americans dominate every facet of political life—from who runs, to who wins, to which issues are addressed, to how our leaders govern—what happens to the voting rights of everyone else?”
The consequences of the Supreme Court’s 2010 and 2014 decisions in “Citizens United“ and “McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission“ provide some insight.
When Ari Berman and I visited by phone from his office in Washington D.C. on June 8, 2015, we began when I asked him to define the word “wealth,” that is being used to deny the right to vote.
The books Ari Berman recommends are “Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement” by John Lewis, and “Housekeeping,” by Marilynne Robinson.
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