Quote Originally Posted by KukriKhan View Post
Three more words:

Spend

ing

caps.

For election campaigns. You can raise a gazillion bucks, to prove your popularity, and for citizens to express their preference through their wallets, but...

you can only spend X amount, maximum, however you want. All contributions and expenditures reportable to the FEC (or State or County equivalent), and displayed prominently on the web, updated daily. If we can't eliminate campaign-contribution influence (as we tried to in the 70's), let's at least shine the bright light of publicity on it, so we know who our public employees are beholden to.
Have you ever thought that the ruling party is neither blue nor red, but green?