Thank you for your work.
I urge the committee's support, and I am happy to answer your questions later.
We have gotten into an arms race here.
Sometimes that is harder than you think.
She has run under the system, she has recruited candidates under a public financing system.
I am a staunch supporter of this bill and will summarize my testimony and submit my written remarks.
My experiences in Maine really brought me to understand how much this can change a legislative body and how much it can ...
She found people who would give her a $5 contribution to qualify her for running for office.
She knocked on doors, she went to the fish piers, she went to the grocery store.
What this is attempting to address, many people don't have business contacts, or they didn't serve in politics before.
I think there is someone on the second panel who can probably answer that more exactly.