Joan Mandle, executive director of the Democracy Matters Institute, explains the importance of making our government truly "of, by and for the people" through the Fair Elections Now Act in this guest column in the Utica Observer-Dispatch.

•  "We need to act because so many ordinary Americans have given up on politics. They believe that our government is no longer really the people’s — that we have lost it to the big donors and special interests who pour money into politicians’ campaign coffers."

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