This election we have those darn Super Pacs that are all the rage……unlimited amounts of money used for political purposes…..to be fair…candidates are not suppose to lead these organizations in any way…,but there are ways around any regulation on campaign funds……but where did this all begin?

First of all, what is a “bag man”?…….an advocate who represents someone else’s policy or purpose; “the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government” or Any person in charge of organizing and collecting contributions to political parties or funds gathered for political reasons. These contributions may be legitimate or illegitimate.

Back in the day, money was collected by campaign friends and put into paper bags and was then doled out as needed….sometimes legally and often times not so legal ways and for not so moral purposes……then in the 60’s and 70’s the paper bag was replaced by the attache case….but the reason and the use were the same….so legal and some illegal.  And then came Nixon and his posse at CREEP (Committee For Re-Election of the President)….after Watergate money in campaigns came under more scrutiny….and that was the day until the cash started infiltrating back into political campaigns back in the 90’s and the 2000’s….and then SCOTUS ruled that corporations were people and as such could donate and donate and donate….and there is where we are today…….special interests can donate unlimited amount of funds to be used by Super PACs in support of a candidate……

There is the evolutionary cycle of the use of a “Bag Man”……..from the sleazy cash in paper bags used for purposes that may not have been on the up and up to the more civilized attache case, but still just as sleazy and just as legally questionable to today’s Bag Man….the Super PAC.

Thanx to the use of a Bag Man, all our elections are nothing more than a political auction (thanx to Dylan Ratigan for the term) where the candidate that raises the most money wins the election….at least in 94% of the time……

Time to Get The Money Out of politics and return the government to the people!  PERIOD!