Some people insist that it will take a major tragedy to unite Americans because we’re divided by so many issues in so many ways. I hope that’s not true. It would be good if we could unite around a good idea. I believe if we could get a law passed making it illegal for candidates running for national office to accept or spend more than $50,000 for a single political campaign we could begin to repair the damage caused by the political divisiveness. For one thing, this would make it totally unnecessary for candidates to have to sell their souls to lobbyists in order to get elected.
Fix political system: Limit campaign money
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 8:10 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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