CAMPAIGN - When Elections Are Bought

     This is a Facebook posting that I decided to share on my blog.

 

     I'm posting this only as a tongue-in-cheek suggestion. However, it would help solve the problem of always electing candidates who are funded the most by special interest PAC money. Should we be electing candidates who spend a few hundred of their own dollars (or private donations), or candidates who raise/spend tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars of special interest/lobbyist money?

 

Maybe America should try that...

 

• Monte Muirhead For the record, I'm a fiscal conservative who strongly supports the free business enterprise system. However, I do believe that reforms needs to be made in our election process, so that far-away special interest PACS don't control the outcome of local elections. For example, more full disclosure laws that REQUIRE advance public notification of who is donating money to whom. "Follow the money" definitely applies here.