A Montgomery County campaign finance bill empowers small donors
Via The Washington Post
MARYLAND has long offered candidates for statewide office the option of public financing for their campaigns, but candidates at the local level have to raise money the old-fashioned way. More often than not, particularly in big suburban jurisdictions like Montgomery County, that means going hat in hand to big-money interests, such as developers and public-employee labor unions.
The result has been elected officials who are heavily dependent on the deep-pocketed groups whose donations are critical to their campaigns. Not exactly a recipe for good government.
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