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The Clean Elections movement and you
Ethan Smith
Origin name: Beart4toArlington, VARegistered User regular
Origin name: Beart4toArlington, VARegistered User regular
In 7 states in America (Arizona, N. Carolina, Maine, Connecticut, New Jersey, New Mexico, and the positions in Portland, OR), the state legislature has passed a bill that allows for a candidate to campaign 'cleanly', that is, to accept public funding for their campaigns. This money is determined by the average amount of money spent in a campaign in the district.
The most recent state, Connecticut, passed the law last year in response to a scandal. After this election, 82% of all of the state congressmen in Connecticut got into office without a single donation from a lobbyist. In Maine, where the law was passed in '98, 90% of their congressmen run clean, and they also have the lowest average age for their state legislature.
I recently came across this movement at the SUNY Social Justice convergence...thing. They do paid internships to anyone who wants to make a chapter in their school, and I think that, with the new Democratic hatred of lobbies, we could push this through, on the state if not on the national level.
The most recent state, Connecticut, passed the law last year in response to a scandal. After this election, 82% of all of the state congressmen in Connecticut got into office without a single donation from a lobbyist. In Maine, where the law was passed in '98, 90% of their congressmen run clean, and they also have the lowest average age for their state legislature.
I recently came across this movement at the SUNY Social Justice convergence...thing. They do paid internships to anyone who wants to make a chapter in their school, and I think that, with the new Democratic hatred of lobbies, we could push this through, on the state if not on the national level.
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and the ubiquiotous wiki link-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Elections
Maybe for President.
You can't really say that the same can be said of state positions.
MWO: Adamski
Ted Stevens might think otherwise.
I think the fact that one is legal and the other illegal make a bit of difference, even if it doesn't outright stop lobbying.
I support this idea.