Public Financing

Private and corporate money in election campaigns distort democracy.  Too much money is spent in campaigns, discouraging challengers without connections to wealth from running for office and indebting politicians to the special interest groups that donate money.  Subsidies and special tax breaks for contributors increase the costs of government for taxpayers, and politicians spend more time raising money from big contributors instead of serving ordinary constituents.    Publicly financing public elections returns democracy to the voters and limits corrupting influences on politicians.

Public financing is essentially "Clean Money" for election campaigns. Candidates who choose to run under the Clean Money system agree to limit their spending and to reject contributions from corporate special interest groups.  When elected to office, Clean Money candidates can concentrate on their constituents' problems and concerns, as opposed to their contributors' needs and special requests.

Much of the material in this package comes from the hard work of  Public Campaign, and the Service Center would like to thank this organization for leading the way to the High Road.

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