In this article, the N&O’s Steve Ford throws our First Amendment rights under the bus in his desire to advocate for a system that uses force to compel taxpayers to finance political campaigns. Public financing is the optimal solution to the problem of excessive special-interest influence on elections. North Carolina has used it with good [...]
Voter Opposition to Public Financing Remains Strong
The latest Civitas poll shows more than 3/4ths of NC voters (76%) are opposed to using taxpayer dollars to finance the campaigns of statewide candidates. Full press release here. In fact, even 78 percent of Democratic voters oppose the idea. No wonder there was such a visceral negative reaction from the public when our friends [...]
California Gets Something Right
The State of California has provided the rest of the country with plenty of lessons of what not to do, but yesterday voters made a wise decision: Californians aren’t interested in financing political campaigns with taxpayer money, even on an experimental basis. Proposition 15, defeated Tuesday, would have set up a voluntary pilot program for [...]
More Hypocrisy from the Left on Elections
One of the refrains often heard from advocates of taxpayer-funded elections is that eliminating the need to raise money will encourage more candidates to run for office. (Although, it’s been shown in Chapel Hill’s taxpayer-funded campaign ploy to not be true.) In fact, the organization established in North Carolina to lobby for taxpayer-funded elections, the [...]
