Buying "Reform"

If you had a nagging sensation that perhaps you'd been scammed by McCain/Feingold, you had good reason. Read all of this column:

"The target audience for all this activity was 535 people in Washington," Treglia says — 100 in the Senate, 435 in the House. "The idea was to create an impression that a mass movement was afoot — that everywhere they looked, in academic institutions, in the business community, in religious groups, in ethnic groups, everywhere, people were talking about reform."