[NormsRevenge]

fyi - This is an Update and not a repost.

[GeronL]

Public funding is just so stupid.

[okie01]

"The big money special interests will be back," said Michelle Davidson, who managed the campaign against the initiative. "They still hope to turn back the clock to the days when all candidates had to rely on special interest money."

Michelle, honey, if you really want to get "big money special interests" out of politics, then you'll first have to get the politicians out of the regulating business.

When the power to tax is the power to destroy, "big money special interests" are a form of self-defense.

But, as a good little liberal, you have yet to understand that business isn't an enemy, and that government isn't a friend.

[Congressman Billybob]

This is yet another example of arrogant judges telling the people that they do not have popular sovereignty. The right to make decisions about the laws on the books belongs to the elected legislature, and to the people directly in those states that have the Initiative.

Under the American theory of government, judges exist to ENFORCE the laws, but not to WRITE the laws. The possibility that judges would get a burr under their saddles and start writing laws caused Thomas Jefferson to refer to the federal judiciary as "the most dangerous branch." Jefferson was right.

Congressman Billybob

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[HungarianGypsy]

I see clean elections as political welfare. For every hard earned fund raising dollar raised by someone not using clean elections money, the clean elections candidate gets it matched -- paid by us. I still want to know why Indian tribes helping finance Napolitano's election aren't considered special interest group funding.