[EL] Credit the SuperPAC?

[Steve Hoersting]

The* WSJ's* Allysia Finley writes that Ted Cruz's victory over Scott
Dewhurst is due to more to the SuperPAC than the Tea Party.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443687504577562684093145966.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLESecond


I don't know how to weigh Finley's assertions: critics of campaign finance
restrictions have always credited *voters* and organization as much as
money.

But if Finley is right -- and it wasn't the Tea Party that made the
difference -- reformers have a lot to answer for:  To so mask popular
sentiment under the gauze of spending restrictions all these years is
darn-near unforgivable.

As I say, I don't know if Finley is right.  But I would bet that none of
the dozens who worked on freeing independent speech the past five years are
shedding many tears for Dewhurst.  Of course, I can't speak for Richard
Briffault or the guys at Perkins Coie.  ;)

-- 
Stephen M. Hoersting
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