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Orlando - I appreciated your riff of quotes earlier on this thread.... good contribution. Of course, the Supreme Court (the name now sounds surrealistic) has prohibited the following suggestion citing a violation of free speech but here it is anyway. All Federal elections should be federally funded and all campaign contributions from any source should be prohibited. Various qualification stages would be created and candidates would then be given money. All candidates would be restricted to the same spending limits.This sounds good on the surface but I fear we already suffer from it being way too hard for anyone without inside connections to get into the process. I have very few examples where bureaucracies (set up with all the best intentions) work to achieve the original purpose. They often seem to stymie as much as facilitate. That said, I'm not offering a better plan, though I agree that big campaign contributions are a problem in almost every case. - Steve |
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