Want to get big money out of politics? OK. Make government less important in people’s lives.
In the meantime, we’re likely to see more stories like the one in the latest Bloomberg Businessweek focusing on the president’s money chase:
Jim Messina, Obama’s campaign manager and a former deputy White House chief of staff, has tried to dampen predictions that the President will raise $1 billion for 2012. Still, he’s put together an aggressive fundraising schedule. Top bundlers, who solicit money from a wide circle of donors, have been asked to collect at least $350,000 this year alone. Four years ago members of Obama’s national finance committee were asked to raise $250,000 for the entire election.
