We should have total public funding of federal campaigns. That is the only way to get the dark money out of politics. As president that will be my first piece of legislation to submit because the undue influence of money on our politics is the cancer underlying all other cancers.

Nov 24, 2019 · 5:22 PM UTC

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Your voice should be on that debate stage.
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The Supreme Court will invalidate that law immediately. What then?
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We should also let the primaries cull the candidates, not selective polls and unequal media time.
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Democracy Dollars would lead to de facto public-funded elections!
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Perhaps have additional federal funding requiring public radio and TV to carry non attack candidate information during an election year? California also mails registered voters a pamphlet with written statements from each candidate before an election.
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Yes! Now that would be some delicious "fundamental pattern disruption!" 💕🇺🇸💕
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People r finally starting to see the existential threat that dark money represents—and the threat’s not just domestic in origin. Foreign, monied interests easily find exploitable loopholes/cracks. See NRA, Kentucky(Rusal), etc...& GB can commiserate:
Peter Jukes @peterjukes
24 Nov 2019
Why is Putin’s success with assassinations on UK soil so important? Well, apart from the billions bankrolling our property market, law firms and politicians, it explains why (in US eyes) we are so supine. The British establishment is a) partially bought and b) terrified
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Why not prohibit spending more than $100 on a campaign, and prohibiting campaigning by incumbents?
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Get rid of Citizens United. One of the worst things that ever happened to America.
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I don't see any way out of the mess of corruption we are in without public funding of elections.
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