Soft Money Arguments Draw Strange Bedfellows.(Brief Article)

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a pairing of strange political bedfellows, was asked last week to overturn the 2001 law banning so-called soft money to political parties. Individuals, corporations and unions have used the system to funnel an estimated $2-billion to the two political parties over the past decade, $500-million alone in the last election cycle.

Credit unions, themselves, have used the soft money rules to send almost $1 million to the two main parties since 1996, including $250,000 in the 2000-2001 elections.

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