Flight of Fancy

My friend Damon Circosta, executive director on the N.C. Center for Voter Education, gets an A for effort but an F for persuasiveness.
 
Circosta, according to Under the Dome, says the flap over Governor Perdue’s campaign not reporting some flights is an argument for “voter-owned” (publicly financed) campaigns. http://projects.newsobserver.com/dome#ixzz0yBS20BU0 
 
The logic goes over my head.
 
Why is a candidate taking public funds any less likely to commit a reporting error than a candidate taking individual and PAC contributions?
 
I hope Damon will enlighten me.
 
As I’ve blogged before, I understand that public-financing supporters are well-intentioned – and right to be concerned about corruption in today’s system. But if President Obama had used public financing, he couldn’t have competed in North Carolina.
 
There is a case to be made for public financing. I just down see how this is it.
 
 
 
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Flight of Fancy

My friend Damon Circosta, executive director on the N.C. Center for Voter Education, gets an A for effort but an F for persuasiveness.
 
Circosta, according to Under the Dome, says the flap over Governor Perdue’s campaign not reporting some flights is an argument for “voter-owned” (publicly financed) campaigns. http://projects.newsobserver.com/dome#ixzz0yBS20BU0 
 
The logic goes over my head.
 
Why is a candidate taking public funds any less likely to commit a reporting error than a candidate taking individual and PAC contributions?
 
I hope Damon will enlighten me.
 
As I’ve blogged before, I understand that public-financing supporters are well-intentioned – and right to be concerned about corruption in today’s system. But if President Obama had used public financing, he couldn’t have competed in North Carolina.
 
There is a case to be made for public financing. I just down see how this is it.
 
 
 
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