Issue Position: Campaign Financing

Issue Position

Choosing our elected officials should be up to the voters, not special interest groups and corporations. Voters should be able to easily find out where each candidate stands on the issues. We used to have a fairness docrine that insured this, but that was done away with thirty years ago. Now voters only get exposed to whomever has the most money to spend on getting their message out there. And sometimes that message has nothing to do with reality or truth. What's worse is those elected officials are then often pressured to make policy in accordence with the special interests that gave them all that money to get elected.

This is not how our great country is supposed to work. Like you, I'm sick of hyperbolic, slanderous campaign commercials and the way that special interest money has corrupted our politics. I believe strongly that current campaign finance law is the disease that causes all these symptums. Minnesota has often been a leader forward progress for our country. It's time for our state to be a leader in campaign finance reform.

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