According to Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer:
On January 25, 2011, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy that strongly opposed legislation introduced by Representative Tom Cole (R-OK) to repeal the Presidential Public Financing System “because it is critical that the Nation’s Presidential Election Public Financing system be fixed rather than dismantled.”
The administration stated that the Cole legislation “would kill the system, not strengthen it. Its effect would be to expand the power of corporations and special interests in the Nation’s elections; to force many candidates into an endless cycle of fundraising at the expense of engagement with voters on the issues; and to place a premium on access to large donor or special interest support, narrowing the field of otherwise worthy candidates.”
Yesterday, Reforms groups sent a letter to President Barack Obama, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, urging them to block any last minute efforts to kill the Presidential Tax Check Off system in the 2015 Omnibus Spending bill.
The reform groups include Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause, CREW, Demand Progress, Democracy 21, Every Voice, League of Women Voters, Issue One, People For the American Way, Public Citizen and U.S. PIRG.
CLICK HERE to read the press release.
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