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Sep232010

Returning elections to the voters

DateThursday, September 23, 2010 at 9:30AM

Opinion: Moving big donors out of politics - Andy Stern and Mark McKinnon - POLITICO.com:

In other words, we can return elections to the hands of the people without costing taxpayers a dime. Passing Fair Elections is a political win-win situation for forward-thinking Democrats and Republicans and a major historic victory for voters. Not since Watergate has a sweeping bill like this advanced as far in Congress.

 Amen brothers Stern and McKinnon. Now, if we could just find a way to pair congressional term limits with campaign finance reform, we might be able to have a system worth saving sometime in the next decade.

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    Source: Moving big donors out of politics
    by Andy Stern & Mark McKinnon at Politicio on September 23, 2010
    It might be an understatement to say that we don’t agree on a lot of things. Yet there is one major tie that binds us: concern for the way that special interest money taints and colors all that Congress does -- particularly in the minds of ordinary Americans Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42593.html#ixzz10MRjjcIR

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