Sanders: Super PACS Are Playing a ‘Very Destructive Role in Our Political System’

DICKERSON: “Let me ask you about another piece of news this week. Scott Walker folded his campaign. You’ve talked a great deal about the billionaire class that influences politics by giving money to candidates. The Koch brothers were big fans of Scott Walker’s. He had a lot of money in his super PAC. And yet, he disappeared from the presidential race. Is that a rebuttal to your argument that big money just totally calls the tune in politics?”
SANDERS: “I wish it were, and I wish that the Koch brothers would say, well, gee, now we’re going to take the $900 million that we planned to spend in this campaign supporting right-wing Republicans, more, by the way, than either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party will spend, and we’re not going to spend it. But, John, I don’t think the Koch brothers learned that lesson. I think the power of money over the political process is horrendous. I think that super PACs are playing a very, very destructive role in our political system. And I will do, if president, everything that I can to see that this disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision is overturned. American democracy is not about billionaires buying elections or trying to buy elections.”