Just Say No (in a simple link)
The donor strike continues at Change Congress (no money to any representative who doesn't commit to citizen funded elections).
Here's a simple (and it's FREE!) link to send back to anyone asking you for money:
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It seems to me that "citizen funded elections" is the sort of misleading rhetoric that you would condemn in others. Current elections are citizen funded—while I am sure there are occasional donations from people outside the country, most of the money is coming from U.S. citizens.
What you are arguing for are government funded elections—elections in which candidates get money collected from citizens as taxes and transferred to the candidates by the government. That may or may not be a good idea, but putting it that way makes clearer the obvious risk—which your way of putting it obscures.
No, that's not right. The Durbin-Specter proposal is for funds to come both from small-dollar contributions (capped at $100 a citizen) and from government funds (for qualifying candidates). The point is the combination creates a credible claim that the only interest funding an election is citizens, as opposed to the (perceived to be) disproportionate influence of others (funneled through citizens, no doubt).
I'd love a better term, but "publicly funded elections" is also misleading (since the $100 contribution is not from "the public").
You missed the .org in the anchor text
David Friedman, "citizen funding" is Ingsoc for what used to be called "state funding" in pre-revolutionary days. What was historically known as "citizen funding" is now more properly referred to as "special interest contributions". However, these contributions are not considered "special interest" if they come from labor unions or other institutions which enjoy Inner Party status. There are exceptions to this rule as well, e.g. the Authors Guild, currently, is enjoined from participation in the Inner Party. Their interests, therefore, are "special interests", for the time being.
You really should know better than to make such critiques. Stick to your Victory Gin and cigarettes. Prof. Lessig, and others of the Inner Party know what's best for us, much better than we do.
Any corporations joined the boycott yet?
don't see how you're going to make any headway toward denying the corporate politicians money if you don't cut off their main source.
denying them of 1/3 of their money in a non-election year will not have a major effect.