"Many qualified and ethical persons are either effectively priced out of the election market place or will not subject themselves to questionable, or downright illicit, practices that many times accompany the current electoral process.
...Past events have shown how close we are to a “bought” nation, state and city.
The lack of an overall limit on spending is an open invitation for special interests to ...lavishly finance candidates...
...More than 65 years ago it was a Republican president, “Teddy” Roosevelt, who advocated an end to the private contribution method of financing campaigns for president.
Now is the time to begin to reconsider the place of the private financial contribution in the political process."
Mitch McConnell
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