Speech! Speech!Submitted by Katie Schlieper on Tue, 08/21/2007 - 3:33pm.
Posted in: campaign finance reform | Public Financing
According to Dmitri Vassilaros at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, campaign finance reform is a)"chilling"; b)a tool of The Man to keep citizens away from government; and c) waaay too popular among elected officials. First, thanks Dmitri for making the campaign finance crowd sound so fascinatingly evil -- I feel like I should be writing this from a mountaintop hideaway while petting a pit bull and twirling my gold pinkie ring. Second, public financing hardly limits speech, in fact it broadens it.
Public financing promotes the involvement of the community in campaigns. You're free to support the candidate of your choice with a small qualifying contribution -- then exercise a little more free speech by lacing up your shoes and going to door-to-door in support of the candidate of your choice. If not being able to heap loads of cash on your candidate offends you, choose to support a candidate not participating in the publicly financed system.
Far from limiting public speech in politics, public financing amplifies the voices of those voters who are not often heard from. Mr. Vassilaros: that's hardly a "chilling" proposal, it's the essence of a democratic system -- one which has been straining for far too long to accommodate the narrow view of speech to which your column subscribes.
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