06-21-2017, 10:49 AM
(06-21-2017, 09:46 AM)michaelsean Wrote: I'm all for limiting what a candidate can receive, or hell even spend, but if I want to spend my own money on ads or whatever, that's my business.
Then there is no point in bitching about the spending on campaigns. Limiting what the campaign itself can do will only push for more to be directed to outside money. Campaign finance reform and the outside spending have to both be addressed or you are just making symbolic gestures.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR