Patricia Lopez, Columnist

Dark Money Is a Cancer on Congress — But It’s Curable

Campaign finance reform would go a long way toward restoring public trust in Congress.

September 12, 2024 at 8:45 AM UTC

Patricia Lopez is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics and policy. She is a former member of the editorial board at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where she also worked as a senior political editor and reporter.

We need to keep track of the piles of money being spent in politics.
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This column is a part of Republic of Distrust, a series about the loss of trust in American institutions and what can be done to restore it.

Democratic Representative Derek Kilmer of Washington had a decade of state elective office under his belt when he arrived in Congress in 2013, so he knew real change can take time.