Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Politicians - and "bundlers"
Who on any planet would give credibility to a politician when there is money involved?...
Dick Polman writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer:
"Hillary Rodham Clinton's avowed support for public financing is flatly contradicted by her current conduct as a candidate. We actually have a public-financing process already, first enacted in the aftermath of Watergate: The feds dole out money to the presidential candidates for the primaries, and then to the nominees for the autumn finale. As a bipartisan panel concluded 20 years ago, 'Public financing of presidential campaigns has clearly proved its worth in opening up the process, reducing the influence of individuals and groups, and virtually ending corruption in presidential election finance.'
But the public-financing process has always been voluntary - and Clinton made history last winter by becoming the first candidate to drop out completely."
