Rule 1 is “as long as there is a big enough reward, the big money special interests will find a way to “creatively reward” legislators willing to steer those benefits to them” and Rule 2 is “every effort at “campaign finance reform” will be met by an equal and opposite well funded and suiccessful attempt to get around it”.

Have you checked out http://www.ourcaucus.com at all?

That web site exposes exactly how the big money special interest groups work hand in hand with incumbents to circumvent the system…and they managed to help a challenger beat an incumbent in Utah even though the incumbent was funded by “big money” and outspent the challenger by over 6 to 1.