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Too big a mouth

By Josh Zaharoff
Posted on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 11:48:07 AM EST

Attorney Edward Bonnie published an Op-Ed entitled "Big money's big mouth" yesterday in the Louisville Courier-Journal, making the First Amendment case for publicly financed campaigns:
I fundamentally disagree, as a lawyer and a citizen, with the notion that how much money one has or can raise determines their political worth. That to me seems antithetical to all the advances our democracy has made over the years in expanding suffrage.


Tags: clean elections, public financing, money in politics, kentucky (all tags)


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