playing in the gop presidential electiooen sheldon adelson i playing in the gop presidential electio sheldon adelson is pln the gop presidential electioshe the gop presidential election. you can either have democracy in this country or have wealth concentrated in the hands of very few but you can t have both. i think that what we need to do is twofold. one, we need to get money out. that s not just through reversing citizens united. it s not we issue a rich robust democracy in 2009, right? we need to get money out by both amending the constitution and say money isn t speech and get people in and partly through public financing so that we are encouraging small dollar donations of the kind we saw in 2008 but that still didn t affect the vast majority of people. and we need to say that there shouldn t be as many barriers to voting. this isn t just a money problem. but it s a participation problem as well. congresswoman critics of campaign finance will say it is impossible, by defin