In Cincinnati, Ohio, some candidates spent upwards of $200,000 for a seat on the city council, before a city ordinance placed spending caps on local campaigns. The city hopes a court challenge to the ordinance will wind up before the Supreme Court...and will prompt the Court to reverse its 1976 Supreme Court decision that found mandatory spending caps violate candidates' free speech rights. NPR's Rick Karr reports.
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