Rick Hill: “the Shays-Meehan bill perpetuates a situation where the parties cannot…”

On the recordSeptember 13, 1999

the Shays-Meehan bill perpetuates a situation where the parties cannot do that. So what happens around here, and you know that, is incumbents build these huge war chests and that discourages a challenger from ever entering the race because they know that they could never compete. One of the interesting things, if we study campaigns, is that challengers actually win with less money than incumbents do, but there is a certain minimum threshold that they have to get across. What most incumbents do is they try to keep their challenger from crossing that threshold. Under this bill, under the bipartisan Campaign Integrity Act, every, every challenger out there would be assured of the opportunity to cross that threshold because their party could help them get over that threshold and we could have competitive elections again.

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Rick Hill

Montana

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Discussing the impact of the Shays-Meehan bill on electoral competition.

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Rick Hill: “the Shays-Meehan bill perpetuates a situation where the parties cannot do that. So what happens around here, and you…”

Editor's note · Context