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No More Excuses
by Paul Bass | Sep 29, 2005 3:11 pm
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Once again, Democrats will have a chance to do what they’ve always pretended they wanted to do: start cleaning up the state’s corrupt political system. Or they can kill it again with sneaky maneuvers and dishonest votes. Noting the indictment of U.S. House Speaker Tom DeLay, Gov. Jodi Rell announced Thursday that she’s calling the state legislature into special session on Oct. 11 to take up campaign finance reform. She’s presenting them with a wide-ranging package of reforms, some championed by Democrats, some by Republicans. The reforms include: banning legislators’ legalized-bribery “ad books” and campaign contributions from lobbyists, contractors and their political action committees (PACs); creating a voluntary public-financing system for legislative elections beginning in 2008 and statewide elections beginning in 2010; restricting the number of legislator PACs; prohibiting local candidates from taking contributions from contractors to whom they give public business (can you spell N-E-W H-A-V-E-N?); allowing cities to adopt local public financing laws (like the one New Haven wants to pass). If the Democrats punt on this again, they never deserve a single progressive vote again. Menawhile, Rell’s likely Democratic challenger next year, New Haven Mayor John DeStefano, issued a statement both supporting the plan and taking a shot at the governor: “I’m hopeful that true reform is now possible. It’s unfortunate and regrettable that it has taken this long. If the Governor had made this a priority at the beginning of the last legislative session in January, a special session now probably wouldn’t be necessary. It’s finally time we restore public trust in government.”
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