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2016 Postmortem

BainsBane

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41. Public financing of elections

Reply to texasmomof3 (Original post)

Sun Oct 28, 2012, 02:54 AM

Oct 2012

A constitutional amendment requiring public financing of elections and banning corporate money to candidates, parties, super pacs, and everything else. Every other change stems form this. Unless we rid our political system of the influence of big money, we can't have a true democracy and substantial reforms that benefit the population at large.

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