A legislative hearing last week in Indiana on Clean Elections continued to garner notice with Indianapolis Star columnist Dan Carpenter summing up many voters’ thoughts this election season:

“Our leaders wouldn’t be hitting us up for gazillions of public dollars to rescue bankers if we’d spent a fraction of those public dollars picking our leaders.”

State Senators Christine Savage of Maine and Meg Burton Cahill of Arizona informed fellow legislators at the hearing that discarding the need for constant fundraising takes a burden off their shoulders and improves the political process, writes Carpenter.

Clean Elections mean “more candidates, more competition, more voter interest, less power for special-interest lobbies once the winners take their seats.”

Carpenter spreads the word on Clean Elections efforts in the state by citing proponents Common Cause Indiana and VOICE, Voter-Owned Indiana Clean Elections Coalition.