Timothy Roemer: “one of our preeminent Supreme Court justices wrote that, and I will paraphrase him, that if one does not have access to…”

“one of our preeminent Supreme Court justices wrote that, and I will paraphrase him, that if one does not have access to millionaires or if one is not a millionaire, they might as well not run for political office. Alexander Hamilton pointed at this great body and said, here, sir, the people govern, the people. We hear loud and clear from the people today that they think the current system is dominated with dialing for dollars, negative advertising, and polsters. The Shays-Meehan bill takes some modest steps to clean this system up and restore some of the trust and confidence by looking at and regulating soft money, or sewer money, and slamming the lid on the amount of soft money that comes into campaigns and trying to get some parameters around the issue ads, or the attack and the sham ads, that dominate TV today. So many of the American people want to turn their TV sets off and not pay any attention to the elections. Vote for Shays-Meehan for responsible and modest campaign finance reform.”