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Kirsten Gillibrand Offers Democracy Dollars

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“Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand jumped into the Democratic presidential policy race Wednesday with a “clean elections” plan that would provide a voter-driven public option for campaign financing.

The New York Democrat’s first policy rollout aims to reduce the influence of special-interest money in politics, an issue that’s grown in significance for Democratic primary voters — and one that Gillibrand argues is an essential step toward enacting other policy changes.

Under Gillibrand’s plan, eligible voters could opt into her “Democracy Dollars” program and register for vouchers, provided by the Federal Elections Commission, to donate up to $100 in a primary election and $100 in a general election each cycle. Each participant would get $200 for each type of federal contest: House, Senate and presidential elections.

But there would be limits on both donors and candidates in order to use the public voucher program. Voters could contribute only to candidates in their state — including House candidates outside their district but within their state. In order to accept the public money, candidates would have to restrict themselves to accepting only donations of $200 or less. Currently, the maximum individual donation candidates can take in per election is $2,800 ($5,600 for both a primary and a general).

“To get anything done in Washington, we have to address the money and greed that corrupts politicians and prevents progress on issues like gun violence prevention, lowering the cost of prescription drugs and addressing climate change,” Gillibrand said in a statement released with her proposal. …”

Suddenly, I like what I am hearing from Kristen Gillibrand.

Actually, this was Andrew Yang’s idea and it is one of the primary reasons that I am supporting his campaign, but I am glad to see this idea of democracy dollars being adopted by other candidates.

After our bitter experience with Blompf selling out to the GOP donor class, the first question that I have as a disaffected populist voter for any candidate running for the presidency is what will you do to eliminate the power and influence of Sheldon Adelson and the Koch Brothers over public policy and stop wealthy people from buying our elections?

I don’t care about your “positions” on the issues anymore. None of Blompf’s positions were real anyway. As soon as he won the 2016 election, he sold all the policies to the GOP donor class and had Jared Kushner bring Gary Cohn into the White House to run the American economy


Source: http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2019/05/01/kirsten-gillibrand-offers-democracy-dollars/


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