5 reasons for public financing
USA Today’s editorial touts clean elections citing pretty much the same reasons we do. The key point from their editorial:
Clean election systems cost from $2 to $6 per year for each voting-age resident, a bargain for trimming costly special-interest influence. In North Carolina, for example, the clean-election option has virtually ended an outrageous special-interest bidding war for seats on the state’s top courts.
Read the full article here:
Our view on elections: 5 reasons for public financing States, cities lead with clean-money alternative to a seamy system.
USA Today Editorial 12/10/07
Posted: December 10th, 2007 under Campaign finance.
