Presidential Elections
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http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=4&hid=108&sid=5f332cd8-ef2f-456a-8e84-cafe208ecfc6%40sessionmgr106 This article talks about public funding and its influence on political campaigning. It mostly talks about why public funding is being declined by canidates.
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for many years the Senate's second-most-powerful member -- reveals a culture of extreme coziness with big corporate special interests," said Sean Dobson, acting director of Progressive Maryland, a nonpartisan watchdog group that has made public funding its priority for this legislative session. "Lawmakers need to prove they are not beholden to deep-pocket special interests."
A bill moving through the legislature would change how some members are elected. Four at-large members sit on the Board of Education, and five members represent districts. The bill would create nine districts. Supporters said it is too difficult to wage countywide elections in a jurisdiction as large as Prince George's.
Lawmakers on the Senate Finance Committee had plenty of kind words yesterday for a House colleague, Del. Peter A. Hammen (D- Baltimore). The Health Committee chairman is the lead sponsor of an ambitious health-care bill, which passed the House of Delegates this month, that would expand Medicaid coverage to up to 200,000 uninsured Marylanders. An increase of $1 a pack in the cigarette tax and savings from a fund that pays for uncompensated care would pay for the program. Full Text (688 words) Alfino 09:58, 22 March 2007 (PDT)
The article presents an editorial about campaign finance reform in the U.S. The author believes that the laws in place now are out of date and archaic. He feels that the money needed to compete greatly exceeds caps currently in place and are unrealistic for current campaigns. While some of the laws are seemingly pointless, others give special interest groups greater importance because they are the only ones who know how to get around the laws.
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Former Massachusetts Gov Mitt Romney, long idling at about 3% in the polls, now gets 15 minutes of fame, courtesy of first-quarter fund-raising results. As for Sen Barack Obama, the $25 million man, the lights can only burn brighter.
