A group of Clean Elections supporters in Greensboro, North Carolina are organizing to bring full public financing of elections to their city, following in the path of Albuquerque, New Mexico and Portland, Oregon, as well as public financing programs for North Carolina's judicial races and three Council of State races, as well as a new program in the works for Chapel Hill. As the cost of running for office escalates, there is concern that running for office is becoming prohibitively expensive for would-be candidates.