While USA Today's editorial staff wrote a succinct, powerful editorial listing the five reasons we need public financing, they also published an "opposing view" from anti-reform crusader Brad Smith, founder of the Center for Competitive Politics.

Smith's piece is rife with misleading information.  I was about to go into detail when I saw that our friends at Public Campaign had already put together a thorough rebuttal, which does a great job of correcting "Smith's exercise in fact distortion and twisted context."