Regardless of whether or not Paul Hackett, of southern Ohio, should be elected to the U.S. Senate is not the issue of this article. What I do think is that new people, sometimes regardless of political party, need to be elected to government. I am all for any effort which would reduce our dependence on the seniority system which is the root of most evils in Washington. Neither is that the issue of this article, well not a major issue anyway.
My problem is with the way in which candidates are funded, who they get their money from, and ultimately who they owe their allegiance to once they are elected. I’m talking about campaign finance reform, and its killing this country!
If you read today’s CNN story about Hackett you will read that it was New York Sen. Charles Schumer who was able to turn off the spigot which funded Hackett’s campaign. How does a senator get that much control over who gets to join the Senate? I’ll let you read the page from the Senate’s website that explains all about Campaign Committees.
It outrages me that this system of allowing senators of all people make such important decisions about campaign finance… how do we fix this problem? Term Limits, and citizens who are just as mad about this as I am getting elected to government.
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