January 23, 2007
THANKS, HILLARY:
Clinton Bid Heralds Demise of Public Financing (Dan Balz and Matthew Mosk, 1/23/07, Washington Post)
The public financing system designed to clean up presidential campaigns in the wake of the Watergate scandal may have died on Saturday when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) announced her bid for the White House.Little noticed amid the announcement rollout was a page on her Web site in which she asked potential contributors to give her campaign checks of up to $4,200. That figure signaled not only that she plans to forgo public funds for primary season but also that, if she becomes the nominee, she will not take public money for the general election.
The notion of the state funding elections was one of the most pernicious the Left ever cooked up. Its death is cause for democrats and republicans to celebrate. Posted by Orrin Judd at January 23, 2007 8:35 AM
I'd agree if there wasn't ballot access protection for the two corporate parties.
Equalize ballot access and reform campaign finance to "disclosure only" and we may yet see that "non-partisan" dream John Adams and the rest of the founders yearned for.
The Dem/Rep paradigm is broken, and as it sits, it is doing more damage than good.
Posted by: Bruno at January 23, 2007 10:57 AMThe public financers forgot to index their amount limits to account for campaign expenditure inflations. Just another example of how the Left trying to impose their belief that price controls will actually work, this time.
Two parties is plenty.
Posted by: oj at January 23, 2007 11:39 AMThose currently being the Stupid Party and the Corruption Party.
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at January 23, 2007 1:58 PMTrackBack
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