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mailbag Archive for: February 2007

Re: Dare To Believe and Dare to Win

The money requirements are a result of the long campaigns that run in this country. We are now currently starting the Presdential Campaign 21 months before the election. The same campaign in England would last six months. The media outlets love this arragement because they make one hell of a lot of money and the Very Rich like it because they have bigger in put into the election process. We need to find a way to shorten the elections.

~ Ole' Yellow Dog

In this article and in the four essays you wrote following the meeting with Boyd Ritchie you laid out the problem in excruciating detail: money and the influence of 'expert' consultants in the political process. But I can not see that you have a solution yet. Yes, 'Dare to Believe and Dare to Win' are great slogans but how are we going to do it. Can the people take back the political process? What are the practicalities? Can it be done on a statewide level? What are your thoughts? I hope you will keep on writing, because I think you are on to something, at least being willing to write about the problem and making us look at it.

~ Leif Hatlen

We must get the big money out of the election process by publicly financing all elections with spending limits. Until that change is made in the process all other changes are moot.

You should not win an election simply because you had the ability to outspend your opponent and get your name/message out. This is not what our forefathers had in mind. Keep up the good fight David even if you have to wrap up!

~ TheHow

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