Campaign finance reformers are taking their policy efforts to the hustings, raising millions of dollars in an unprecedented push to support candidates in the November elections. Among these groups, the pioneer of this electoral strategy is adjusting its tactics to advance campaign finance reform across the country.
For the past decade, the Public Campaign Action Fund, headed by executive director David Donnelly, has pushed both to elect campaign finance reform supporters and to pass federal and state legislation authorizing public financing of electoral efforts. Now, with a broader mission and new funds, the group is merging with its affiliated super PAC, Friends of Democracy, and changing its name to Every Voice.
“We feel that we’ve completely won the debate on the problem of money in politics,” Donnelly told The Huffington Post. “Americans have a really good sense of what that is.”