Alabama candidates spent more than $40.6 million during this year’s primary and runoff elections for state and federal offices, according to an Alabama Reflector review of state and federal campaign finance filings.
That is a great deal of money to spend persuading Alabamians to grant someone temporary possession of public power. No one invests that much in offices that do not matter.
Government awards contracts, grants licenses, regulates industries and distributes billions of public dollars. It determines who pays taxes, who receives incentives and whose interests are protected when laws are written. Those decisions have value, and so does access
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