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Daily Archives: July 26, 2007
Stop Fat Cats
This is from Public Campaign:
Tell Congress to Support the Fair Elections Now Act
When will elections be about voters instead of campaign donors? Clean elections systems have worked in Arizona, Maine and elsewhere. If we want progress on national issues, it’s time for public financing of congressional campaigns.
It’s no secret that the skyrocketing costs of congressional campaigns have turned our political system into what amounts to legalized bribery. Politicians feel compelled to raise huge sums of cash from special interests – often the very same people they’re supposed to be regulating.