Brazile on Vermont Spending Case

Donna Brazile has written a commentary, "Vermont Case Offers Chance to Embrace Spending Limits," for Roll Call (paid subscription required). A snippet:

What’s wrong with reasonable spending limits that leave plenty of cash to run great campaigns but also level the playing field and allow plenty of time for the real work of campaigns and governance?

There’s nothing wrong with that, and a lot that’s right. Opponents will raise the constitutional issues they always do on the topic, but if we truly want our democracy to remain a representative, responsive and honest one, we desperately need a conversation about our current campaign finance system. That’s why seasoned politicians from across the partisan divide — from former Sens. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.) to Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) — support campaign spending caps. It’s long past time to put this good idea on the table.

Posted by Rick Hasen at November 8, 2005 08:05 AM