Uh-oh. This doesn’t look like Louise Slaughter is really going for the CMCE thing. Her opinion, at least from the article, seems to be that people hold politicians in such low esteem that they would never support public financing of elections.
Of course, she’s a representative, and a good one. Perhaps if the right people have her ear, she’ll prick up. At the moment, her opinion seems a bit jaded, especially since many states are currently switching to the CMCE model and doing quite well from the initial reports. More thoughts on this over at Kevin Drum’s blog.
Let’s hope for the best from Congresswoman Louise Slaughter. It looks as though I might be playing some role in MJ’s interview with said Congresswoman, and hopefully will have something to bring back to the site.
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[...] And what of Rep. Slaughter as a candidate for CMCE stewardship? Well, thusfar, her attitude in recent interviews has seemed a bit ambivelent: I think what the sense really is — we keep getting stuck with McCain-Feingold here — is that the public wouldn’t stand for it. I think we’re held in such minimum, low regard that if people started to talk about public financing for elections they’d go nuts. I guess if I had to choose one issue that I’d like us to really get together on and say, “if we take the House back, we’ll do this,” I’d like to say we would fix that Medicare bill and we would look for universal healthcare. I don’t think people give a damn how we get elected?I don’t hear any talk about public financing at this point. [...]