Wrong!
Clearly you are not looking at this ad
subjectively. You are looking at this
ad as a smear campaign. Try looking at this ad again, thinking how low some people have to go, in order to get enough money to run their reelection campaign just to keep that power.

This AD clearly shows a great need for public campaign financing and while it is being set up, include sharp teeth in this, that everyone, regardless of their wealth, must participate in this manner of obtaining all of their campaign money for all federal elective positions and no other money will be acceptable from anyone! Otherwise a person with the wealth of someone like Mr. Bill Gates could practically buy the presidency. Witness the recent event
of the Mayor of NYC, Mr. Bloomberg, a
multi billionaire thinking of running
for President, but changed his mind. Imagine such a person with fewer scruples, but same amount of money and
willing to spend almost all of those multibillions for that office!

Then if someone did something like that ad shows being done, nail that person because it would not be needed
for reelection, it would be for themself.

I'm not sure I understand your post. I would argue that the ad does not represent Clean Elections so much as it bashes another candidate. Clean Elections asks for our money to run the ad, but I don't see how it gets across the clean elections message. I really doubt that many people will go to the website (listed for three seconds at the end of the add) which is the ONLY reference to clean elections in the entire ad!

Why don't we spend the money sending informational packets to registered voters? Most of my friends have never even heard of clean elections, but when I explain it they think its a great idea.

"Protesting is good, having an alternative is better" -Jim Wallis

Thank you all for posting your comments here -- it is great to see debate on this issue. Public Campaign Action Fund, in addition to advocating for Clean Elections has as a part of its mission the goal to raise awareness about ties between special interest money and legislators and the unfavorable policy atmosphere that results. Many of our ad campaigns have this focus. We have found it's an important component in defining the problem which Clean Elections addresses and brings lots of new people to the work. The majority of our work, and the work of our sister org Public Campaign is spreading the word about Clean Elections which, as you rightly pointed out, many voters think is a great idea once they've heard about it. So, we do both!