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Revitalized Public Financing

— By Jonathan Stein | Thu November 13, 2008 11:01 AM PST

REVITALIZED PUBLIC FINANCING... I have a post on that subject up now on what Kevin calls the mother blog (aka MoJo Blog). Fred Wertheimer, president of good government group Democracy 21, takes to the Washington Post today to sketch out what a functioning public financing system looks like in the next decade. I point out the highlights.

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      Submitted by Chicounsel (not verified) on November 13, 2008 - 11:31am.

      Doesn't the One's success at fund raising destroy any rationale for "public financing"? Especially, since those who favor "public financing" because they believe that private money given to candidates is somehow suspect failed to raise a peep when the One broke his promise to use it when running for office.

      The only good thing that happened as a result of McCain-Feingold is that it destroyed McCain's chance to win.

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