Mark Green, the losing candidate in the last New York City mayoral election, has penned an article for The Nation filled with jaw-dropping factoids about the glaring need for campaign finance reform. One example:
"As more and more multimillionaires run and win -- the percentage of them in the Senate has risen to more than one-third, about the same proportion as it was before senators began being elected by popular vote in 1913 ..."
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