Democracy Matters member Daniel Ginsberg-Jaeckle writes an excellent editorial in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Post about the Fair Elections Now Act, the bill introduced in the Senate just two weeks ago to bring Clean Elections-style public financing to Congress.  He expresses well the the pressing issue at the root of passing Clean Elections; the current system benefits the few at the expense of the majority. In order to have a just society, we must correct this imbalance: There used to be felony convictions in this country for many of the practices of private funding that go on today. Most developed countries have banned private money in politics. There is an endless list of the negative effects of private money in politics. Its well known on Capitol Hill that private money in politics is at the root cause for why working Americans pay three-fourths of total taxes, why the wealthy have gotten over a trillion in tax cuts the past 10 years, why billions of dollars have been wiped out from employee pension funds, why corporate farms using dangerous methods will get billions of dollars in government subsidies, why food processing plants have been deregulated, why we pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, why the wealthy are pardoned from tax evasion and other crimes, and why only 23.5 percent of elected officials in the United States are women. In a recent visit, poet Amiri Baraka reminded the UWM audience that we are not part of a university because we are smart; we are part of a university because people before us made sacrifices to get us here. We owe it to our college privilege to get involved in this obvious struggle for equality and justice.   Democracy Matters is an organization that involves college students around the country in winning Clean Elections, and encouraging involvement in elections and democratic process.