Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Clean Election vs. Election Reform

Explanation in a Nutshell:  Clean Elections allow for people to run on taxpayer dollars or contributions.  What they don't tell you is that when the person on public funding(taxpayer $) doesn't have as much as the other candidate, the taxpayers chip in the extra funds to level the playing field.  Sounds fair, right?  Well, not if that person is just riding the taxpayer bank account, and not doing anything to get real supporters via "we the people".
And, how does it affect the other side of the coin?  Passing legislation.  It makes it easier for the public to press their officials to listen to what they want.  It takes the lobbyists out of the picture and in that way, the lobbyists aren't in the ears of the elected officials and they aren't in their pocketbooks anymore either. Sounds good.

So then that brings us to 'publicly financed elections':  The first thing you have to do is not only think about who this affects/ gets rid of, but how you have to do it, to make it complete.  You not only have to get rid of Citizens United, but also other rulings on elections to make it totally dependent on public funding.

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