Issue Position: Campaign Reform

Issue Position

Campaign reform is not the most important issue, but it's the first issue because our ability to deal with all others--including deficits, education, health care, and the environment--is held hostage until we fix it. Campaign costs have become so high that elected officials are continually preoccupied with campaigns and fundraising, even after they are in office. And this preoccupation often drives them to adopt extreme ideologies that are divisive, which plays out in our government. We need a process for electing officials that does not leave them so committed to the ideologies of their big supporters that they can't work together to solve our problems. My campaign is dedicated and designed to playing a proactive role in development of that process.

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