Posted on 02/08/2011 10:01:31 AM PST by tngovolsgo
Craig Fitzhugh wants to create a democracy fund:
The fund would essentially be a matching fund for qualifying contributions from private individuals who reside in the district or county of the candidate. A qualifying contribution is “more than $10 and less than $100″ and in order to participate, the candidate would have to raise X number of qualifying contributions as follows:
Governor: 7,000 of which no more than 1/3 can come from that Candidate’s congressional district.
State Senator: 400
State Representative: 200
With accepting public financing funds, the candidate would thus limit the amount he can raise from private individuals to $100 per person and would exclude PAC contributions.
The Rats have been thoroughly defeated in Tennessee and now that they are in the minority, the money has stopped flowing into their pockets. So now they want the taxpayers to fund their campaigns.
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