All of this screams for public financing of all elections and campaigns.
Period. Talk about fair.
Andy Driscoll
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> From: "Russell Wayne Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 20:46:35 -0600
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [Mpls] Re: Campaign Finance Disclosure
>
> I just have to re-iterate that I think this practice of reporting individual
> contributions that are more than a "certain arbitrary number" is
> discriminatory. If we are going to report contributions, we should report
> all contributions.
>
> The problem here is that we are making the assumption that only big money
> individual donors can buy influence. This is discriminatory and an
> erroneous assumption. $25 might not buy influence, but a whole lot of $25
> contributions from the same place can certainly buy influence just as much
> as one single donor. And I still believe equal protection under the law is
> appropriate here.
>
> Russ Peterson
> Ward 9
> Standish
>
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