New Hampshire Commission Formed
The New Hampshire legislature voted a few months back for form a commission to study the feasibility of adopting a full public financing program for the state's elections. The people who will make up that commission have now been named, and many of them are familiar faces in the Clean Elections community. Here's who is going to be serving on the New Hampshire panel (via Politicker): Selected were Stuart Comstock-Gay, Concord Democrat and director of the Democracy Program at Demos: A Network of Ideas and Action, Abigail Abrash Walton, Democrat from Keene and faculty member at Antioch University New England; John Rauh, New Castle Democrat and president of Americans for Campaign Reform; Jim Rubens, Republican, former state senator from Etna; Martin Honigberg, Concord Democrat, attorney at Sulloway and Hollis; Brad Cook, Republican from Manchester, attorney at Sheehan, Phinney, Bass, and Green; and Barbara Hilton, Independent Citizen Activist from Portsmouth. Good luck, folks. Let's get Clean Elections in New Hampshire!