Chicagoans Deserve a People-Powered Democracy
We can have a government that represents all of us and supports what our communities need, not what big-money donors and special interests want. LWV Chicago has endorsed Fair Elections Chicago’s campaign for public campaign financing.
The proposal was recently covered by the Chicago Tribune:
Taxpayer money should match Chicago campaign donations, alderman proposes
Chicago elections could soon be rewired by a new bucket of cash: taxpayer-funded matching money that multiplies small-dollar campaign contributions.
City Council candidates would get as much as $200,000 in public funds linked to small contributions if a new ordinance proposed by Ald. Matt Martin, 47th, passes. The legislation aims to dampen the oversized influence of wealthy donors, he said at a news conference Tuesday.
“Our current campaign finance system is broken,” said Martin, chair of the council’s Ethics Committee. “Too often it forces candidates to rely heavily on a few big special interest donors to fund their campaigns.”
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