The Denver Post: Big money from corporations and secret donors have corrupted our elections and eroded confidence in government. The painful reality is that, given the importance of campaign donations, far too many politicians focus on the needs of the wealthy few and powerful companies — and not on the needs of the people who voted for them.

The Supreme Court’s Citizens United case deserves much of the blame for the cascade of big money in our politics. But we don’t have to wait for the Court to overrule the 2010 opinion to fix this problem. Instead, we can address it by taking action here in Colorado.

In Citizens United, the Court overruled decades of precedent and struck down a federal prohibition on corporate independent expenditures to support candidates, opening the floodgates to corporate money in elections. An analysis by Tom Moore of “Outside Spending” data from Open Secrets found the result was “immediate and dramatic,” with “reported independent expenditures of outside groups explod(ing) by more than 28-fold from 2008 to 2024 (from $144 million to $4.21 billion).”

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