Politicians like to kiss babies, shake hands, and horn in on your breakfast at local diners. These days, though, candidates are spending a majority of their time locked up in a room with a telephone and a spreadsheet asking for money. Today on Huffington Post, Al Franken, who’s running for Senate in Minnesota against incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN), complains about all the time he has to spend dialing for dollars...

Your letters to the editor continue to be published in newspapers across the country, today I saw two more excellent submissions: one courtesty of Mark Hruby in Minnesota's St. Cloud Times, and one by Richard Rawlings in Washington state's The Olympian (fourth down). To keep up our efforts behing the Fair Elections Now Act we need to keep getting the word out, so thanks to all of you taking time to write your letters!

A Minnesota university student, Joe Mullenbach, a member of Democracy Matters, has written in the Minnesota Daily on the importance of Clean Money reform.