Democracy Trampled! Big Money bought elections - again. Grass roots lost to Corporate Greed

In Washington and Maine, a flood of corporate cash swings popular opinion on key ballot issues

In two referendum battles that took place on opposite sides of the country on Tuesday, the power of big money campaigns funded by out-of-state corporate interests once again revealed itself by overwhelming grassroots campaigns trying to champion a local common good.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/06-4