Bringing Voters Back
Submitted by Katie Schlieper on Tue, 02/20/2007 - 15:48
Wisconsin's Sheboygan Press rues the inadequacy of the presidential public financing system in the face of the great money chase for the White House. By tying success in the presidential race to relationships with special interests PACs and other big money donors, voters who counted on the public financing system to amplify their voices and reduce corruption are shut out. The editorial calls for Congress to remedy this situation, and make issues of campaign finance a priority. To fully integrate voters back into the political and electoral process, there must be a way to shut big money -- and all the favor-trading it implies -- out, and the only way to do that is with a full public financing alternative, in the model of Clean Elections.