Nicholas Goldberg: If Rick Caruso wants to buy L.A.'s mayoral election, that's okay with the Supreme Court

I'm so sick of Rick Caruso.

Every time I turn on the TV or glance at social media, I find him staring out at me. I never "liked" him or retweeted him or clicked to buy one of his tote bags. So why is he hounding me?

But there he is, the mall-developer-turned-mayoral candidate, bombarding me — and the rest of Los Angeles, presumably — with one slick ad after another, dispensing the usual bromides about cleaning up crime, homelessness and corruption until we're all hearing his promises in our sleep.

That's what you can do: Waltz into the campaign at the last minute and beat your message into the heads of voters who didn't ask to hear it, in the long tradition of mega-rich candidates like Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, Mike Bloomberg, Jon Corzine, Donald Trump and Tom Steyer.