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What's Good For Maine

Submitted by Katie Schlieper on Mon, 02/26/2007 - 16:11

The Philadelphia Inquirer is really getting behind Clean Elections. Concerned with both corruption and the rapidly escalating cost of campaigning -- and what the real cost is to voters -- they are intrigued by the possibilities of a full public financing system to put the focus in elections back on voters, and not the courting of wealthy donors. Today's supportive editorial points to the model Maine's Clean Elections system offers Pennsylvania.

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