Publicly Funded Elections: NOW

Posted by Mary Mancini on June 19, 2007 under Uncategorized |

Ordinary voters are being drowned out by corporate and wealthy special interests that co-opt elected officials and raid the federal treasury for earmarks and tax breaks. The result is policy for Big Pharma, Big Oil and Wall Street. But we can change all that.

Senators Durbin and Specter are moving the Fair Elections Now Act in the Senate.

Tomorrow, June 20, 2007 at 10:00 a.m. EST, the Senate Rules Committee will hold the first congressional hearing in more than a decade on publicly funded elections to consider the Fair Elections Now Act. It is important that your senators hear from you. Tell them that you support the Fair Elections Now Act: a voluntary system of publicly funded congressional elections.

This bold and important bill will transform elections by:

Breaking the nexus between big money and our elected officials that drains taxpayer money from the Treasury.
Leveling the playing field - allowing good candidates of modest means to run to serve in the Senate.
Making it possible for candidates to run and win on the quality of their ideas, instead of the size of their campaign war chests.
Freeing candidates from the money chase so that they can focus on talking with and working for voters, not dialing for dollars and cocktails with lobbyists.

Learn more and take action to support the Fair Elections Now Act and create voter-owned elections.

Volunteer Voters » Public Choice said,

[...] Mary Mancini hoping for publicly funded elections. I never can make up my mind on this. Some days I think that money is akin to speech and should be essentially unregulated. One the other hand, I see what money has done to the process and I cannot help but think that removing monied interest from the process would have to help things. [...]