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"For many positions, to have to go to the very same interests that you're going to be regulating ... for your money to run for office is a disaster. It's a fundamental mistake in the system as it exists. And to be able to be free of that, to be able to have public funding, which makes you independent from any specific interest, is, I think, a liberating factor. It's one that would allow me to do a much better job." --Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard
”Public financing is the difference
between being able to go out and spend your time talking
with voters, meeting with groups, . . . traveling to communities
that have been under-represented in the past, as opposed
to being on the phone selling tickets to a $250 a plate
fundraiser.” -- Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano,
elected under Arizona's Voter Owned Elections program
“We Clean Elections [Voter Owned Elections]
pioneers are a more independent bunch, especially because
we’re not worrying about how we’re going
to raise the big bucks to win our next race. Lobbyists
for special interests tend to spend less time with us,
which makes it easier to get through the Capitol halls
in time for a vote.” -- Glenn Cummings, & Ed Youngblood, Maine State legislators,
elected using Voter Owned Elections
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