NEAL BOORTZ & TOM PERKINS ARE GETTING THEIR WAY

(h/t echidne)

Both want rich people to have a vastly disproportionate influence over elections and that seems to be coming true without allowing them extra votes:

Big-Money Donors Demand Larger Say in Campaign Strategy

By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
MARCH 1, 2014
NYT

The quiet revolt signals a broader shift in the world of big money. Clubs of elite donors in both parties are taking a more central role in shaping policy and campaigns, displacing party leaders and the outside-spending organizations they helped create after the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010. And the sheer scale of their spending is almost certain to rewrite the playbook for political campaigns this year, as candidates reckon with the strongly held views of some of the world’s wealthiest people.