Most people who run for office hate dealing with fundraising. You could go to complete public financing, but you'd be you would have a glut of political consultant whores who would get candidates in races just to collect a paycheck.
It costs nothing for a voter to figure out info on a candidate. Candidates are pretty public people. The problem is, the percentage of voters who swing elections not only take no steps to be informed, they adamantly do NOT want to be informed and have nothing to do with that. Reaching people who don't want to be reached is expensive. Campaign finance reform / public financing / et al is just haggling on who pays that expensive bill. j On 2/5/13 12:30 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote: > The first *best* step is to take the money out of politics altogether. > > - ferg > > > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Conrad Constantine <con...@1211.net> wrote: > >> On 2/5/2013 12:46 PM, Dan White wrote: >>> >>>> e. General election will decide the president (or whatever office) >>>> >>>> f. No more electoral college >>> >>> Yes please. >>> >> I still think my solution is the best. >> >> Parties do not elect their presidential candidates, only nominate them. The >> population votes for all the presented candidates from all parties. >> >> with the Top three highest voted candidates (party irrelevant) now entering >> the ring, gladiatorial combat ensues - to the death. Four years later the >> president must again defend his title from a new batch of challengers. >> >> house and senate remain pretty much the same, however any citizen has the >> right to challenge them in single combat for their position once every three >> months. terms are otherwise unlimited. >> >> Hey, it might not be a perfect form of government, but at least it will have >> rich privileged people dying for their beliefs, instead of poor folks >> sacrificing themselves for the same. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. >> https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec >> Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
