Friday, August 31, 2018

Idea of the Week: Public Financing of Campaigns and Clean Elections

This has been offered before but we need public financing of campaigns. We can no longer have Dark Money or Shadow Interests pull our public servants on puppet strings made of tiny folded and wadded cash. It is not good for Democracy and it promotes oligarchy and plutocracy. We need to have public financing of campaigns.
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