In the most recent edition of the Albany Journal, Jim Finkelstein wrote a letter to the editor regarding how our elected officials are bought and paid for by special interests. Through the vast majority of the letter, I found myself in complete agreement. That is, until I got to the last paragraph that said “Leadership can only come from the top, and we can only hope that President Obama will realize at sme point that until we eliminate all of the barely legal forms of bribery which currently exist and switch to publicly financed electoral contests, he will never be able to achieve meaningful reform in any area.”
While I agree that special interests have gotten too powerful in this nation, public financing of elections ain’t going to cut it for a whole lot of reasons. Continue reading Public Campaign Financing A Horrible Idea
