How is Donald Trump managing to receive $1 million bribes (by a more polite name, of course) for a dinner at his Florida lair? What is Elon Musk using to offer voters in state elections $1 million for their votes? How is Vivek Ramaswamy flooding televisions in Ohio with his campaign for governor over a year out from any election? What is spreading like an epidemic into local races like those for mayor of Boston and New York — with Andrew Cuomo in New York seeming to skirt the rules by using this entity as if it were his campaign, and one billionaire dumping $1 million into attacking a candidate in Boston? If you said "Super PACs," you're right! Click here to tell your state to get rid of them! A list of the reforms needed by the U.S. election system could fill, and has filled, many a book. But the fundamental reforms without which no others will have the needed impact are: - Eliminating bribery,
- Providing fair media coverage -- not incessant, costly campaign ads.
The people of the state of Maine voted overwhelmingly last November to limit the amount of money an individual can give to a Super PAC. While there are serious limits on what an individual can pay to an electoral candidate's campaign, a political action committee called a Super PAC can spend unlimited money promoting a candidate and can take unlimited money from individuals -- or can in the state of this state but not any longer in Maine. Click here to tell this state's governor and legislators that we need this same reform now.  |
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