federal, state and local--and 20 years in the nonprofit sector. For the past 13 years he has been executive director of the nonprofit, nonpartisan Michigan Campaign Finance Network, where he is the principal investigator of the biennial Citizen’s Guide to Michigan Campaign Finance and periodic reports on money in Michigan politics.
Enormous changes in campaign finance law have been effected since the untimely retirement of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor – the last justice to have experience in electoral politics. Rich Robinson will discuss those Supreme Court changes, how they have changed the practice of campaign finance and how that contributes to the battered state of American politics.

Please check the OLLI web site for additional lectures in the series “Money and Politics: Is Democracy for Sale?” Thursdays, September 11 - October 23.
http://www.olli-umich.org/programs_activities/lectures/1st_Lecture_Series.pdf