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# Letter: Why Citizens United must be overturned
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/letter-why-citizens-united-must-be-overturned/
- Published: 2016-04-23T13:02:56.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-03T21:45:41.000Z
- Author: Editor
- Tags: Letters, Opinion, citizens united, jeffrey burman, letters to the editor, Marina del Rey, money in politics, Santa Monica, santa monica daily press, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 14:39

To the editor:

If direct democracy is the ideal, then Citizens United is its mirror opposite. By direct democracy, I mean one person, one vote. Under Citizens United the spending floodgates are now open. Under any reasonable definition, Corporations are not people. Nor should they be able to spend freely in elections. The rich should not be able to exaggerate their influence in elections.

Jeffrey Burman  
*Marina Del Rey*