If you recall, we recently covered the fact that the Fox Valley Citizens for Peace and Justice – or the “hippies” as I like to call them – insisted that the Elgin City Council set forth a resolution deriding SuperPAC money for derailing the political process. 
My theory was those kind of meaningless symbolic proclamations are utterly pointless and, like Jay’s Potato chips, once you start, you can’t stop making ’em.
But despite my efforts to educate the FVCPJ as to what a real grass movement requires, they struck back with yet another somewhat pointless symbolic gesture – two letters to the editor.
Thus, in Monday’s Courier-News column, not only do I dismiss the notion of a “meaningful” resolution, but I explain that the FVCPJ’s basic premise is flawed because all that PAC money fell completely flat. Of the $400 million Karl Rove’s Crossroads SuperPAC spent, only 1.2 percent went to winning candidates.
So you can resolve until you’re blue in the face, but as long as politicians benefit from this largesse, in light of the Supreme Court’s Citizen’s United ruling, campaign finance reform will only come from within.
As one of my favorite comedians, Patton Oswalt, likes to say, “We need conservatives that can accept gays, and we need hippies that can shave and bathe, then we’ll move forward.”
