Fannie Lou Hamer
Real campaign finance reform would meet the Fannie Lou Hamer standard, which provides a way to see immediately what constitutes real reform. It is a standard for the kind of reform that is consistent with our highest aspirations for democracy -- reform based on the sacred principle of POLITICAL EQUALITY:
Equal opportunity for everyone to participate in the political process regardless of race, gender or economic status and access to wealth.
One person, one vote rather than one dollar, one vote.
Government of, by and for the people means all the people, not just those who can raise, or who can afford to give big-money campaign contributions.
The Clean Money Solution
There is an alternative to the current campaign finance system of privately funded elections that helps restore fairness and equality to the election process.
Under the Clean Money, Clean Elections approach, already law in five states--Arizona, Maine, North Carolina, New Mexico, and Vermont--candidates who agree to abide by strict spending limits and to raise no private money qualify for a grant of public funds for their campaigns.
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Clean Elections/Clean Money reform.
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