Also here is my recent exchange with Public Citizen the leading organization promoting election reform:

Dear Public Citizen,
I see on your web site your list of organizations that support Fair
Elections. Are there any political organizations working to help elect or re-elect champions for fair elections? I want to help those candidates.
Thanks

Paul,
That's a great idea, and I'm not sure if there are any PACs doing that
yet. Public Citizen does not get involved in electoral politics, and we
cannot endorse any candidates, so this is not something we can do.
Thank you for your interest in Fair Elections, though.
-Lara Chausow
Advocacy Coordinator
Public Citizen's Congress Watch

It is a necessary reform that will reverse the 40-year old national trend toward ever-safer congressional districts.

Cheers,
Ken Clark
Chairman

Maine has a part time citizen legislature. Applying the same idea as Maine to the national elections would lock Democratic incumbents in for as long as they want to be in office.

Of course, you claim that the Democratic incumbents running unopposed are so busy raising money (for no electorical reasons) that they cannot do they people's business. You just agreed that the idea that public financing is needed for time management reasons is totally bogus.

What all public financing proponents want is a single party state where it will be impossible to challenge liberal Democratic incumbents who will also be able to hand pick their successors.

http://www.truecourageaction.net/2007/11/01/get...

The real solution begins with term limits, which Americans have long sought. If no term limits, then at least prohibit consecutive election to the same or similar office.

Why do you believe that only liberals would benefit from public finance of campaigns. Aren't there significant numbers of relatively conservative districts which would favor conservative candidates?

I agree that lobbyists will always be around but wouldn't they have less influence if they were not essential to finance elections?

All public campaigning would do is make the U.S. a one party state where unions and liberal NGO would have all of the power. Liberal activsit would have a government funded career path from NGO staffer, to political staffer, to government funded candidate.

As long as the government has trillions of dollars to spend and can make or break industries and business based upon earmarks and special legislation, lobbyist will always be around.

Of course, no one of the left is going to suggest shrinking the government but instead talk about nationalizing health care, energy, and transportation. All of the current Democratic Party proposals will increase the demand for lobbyist, not end them.