Mark Harmon: Call Corruption by its Name

At the close of the 2016 election ABC News and the Washington Post commissioned a survey on the most important issues driving voters’ presidential choices. The economy/jobs led at 29 percent, but second place at 17 percent was corruption in government.

Voters also seem to have pegged campaign money as a key component. A Bloomberg survey last fall found nearly two-thirds of respondents strongly agreeing with the statement “campaign finance should be reformed so that a rich person does not have more influence than a person without money.”