-- special interest campaign funding. As long as elected officials need to beg special interests for campaign cash, there will be corruption in both major parties. And that's why Democrats have divided loyalties -- to the people, and to Big Money. But not Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano: because she was elected with
Clean Money Public Campaign funding. Now is our chance to pass public campaign funding in California, but the CA Clean Money campaign needs your support, so please recommend this diary.
This is the Gordian Knot of American politics. Every party eventually gets corrupted by the need for campaign funding. But now there's a way to cut this Gordian Knot, and free our elected officials from addiction to corporate cash. It's called Clean Money -- public funding of elections. It works in Maine and Arizona, where first-term Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano has taken NO campaign contributions from special interests, and the same goes for more than half the legislature and other state elected officials.
Napolitano and more than half the legislature now tell the lobbyists and their Big Money paymasters to go to hell. Maine just passed a universal health care bill. and Connecticut just passed to bill to create a Clean Money/Public financing system for state offices.
As a first step toward ending the reign of King Money in Congress, we MUST pass the Clean Money/Public Campaign Finance bill in California - AB 583, which will be voted in the State Assembly next week! So Californians, PLEASE call Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez and Majority Leader Dario Frommer in Sacramento on Monday and tell them to pass AB 583!
"We need an election process that decreases the role of money in politics, and increases public participation and trust in politics. Only then, through decreasing politicians' dependence on campaign contributors and focusing on publicly-financed elections, can we improve the long-term, best interests of the entire nation."
-- Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club