Firehose of cash flows through surplus loophole

Plus Facebook parent tries to invalidate campaign disclosure law

Campaign cash is just gushing through the Legislature’s surplus-funds loophole this month. Since the Aug. 3 primary, more than $2.3 million has moved from prominent lawmakers' largely nonexistent reelection campaigns into the hard-money political action committees controlled by the leaders of the four caucuses.

In the months ahead, look for those millio…