The Maryland Gazette covers a story on new polling that has been done in Maryland showing 63% of voters would support a pilot public financing program. "Maryland Sen. Paul Pinsky, a Democrat from Prince George's County and a strong supporter of public funding for campaigns, said it's a fact of politics that some people get calls back on their concerns a lot faster than others. "The influence is there ... it's simply not a level playing field," he said. Pinsky's point, essentially, is one commonly accepted throughout political arenas — that those who have money tend to have greater access to, and influence on, political leaders than those who don't. Pinsky points to the lack of corporate tax loophole reform and the passage of energy deregulation as cases where well-funded interest groups may have defeated principled endeavors."To read the full story, click here.