Public financing

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Public financing

TB — 2/1/2007 3:54:59 AM (archived)

When campaigns are publicly financed, then the power will be with the system and bureaucrats that decide who gets the money.

Public candidates are supposed to serve the people, not private interests.

That's kind of an odd sentence, isn't it?

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California legislator wants to make incandescent bulbs illegal. - TB - 1/31/2007 9:54:08 PM
- Fluorescent bulbs are likely unhealthy. - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/1/2007 10:00:41 PM
  - Link - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/1/2007 10:31:12 PM
- This whole thread has to qualify for some kind of Moebius award or something.... - Laurie Street - 2/1/2007 6:05:31 AM
  - The actual issue here... - TB - 2/1/2007 5:39:34 PM
- But are the energy shortages in CA man-made, or just normal variances? - Bowser - 2/1/2007 5:32:00 AM
- In the future, everyone will have a nose stud or two. - SDF - 2/1/2007 3:17:46 AM
  - Power to the people - Laurie Street - 2/1/2007 6:03:03 AM
    - Sorry, but I'm totally obsessed with my nose stud gadgetry idea. - SDF - 2/1/2007 9:24:42 PM
- banning trans-fats, and making spanking illegal - Laurie Street - 1/31/2007 10:05:40 PM
  - re: banning trans-fats, and making spanking illegal - Yetster - 1/31/2007 11:51:24 PM
    - re: banning trans-fats, and making spanking illegal - Laurie Street - 2/1/2007 4:48:18 AM
      - You have a deadline? Showoff. - TB - 2/1/2007 6:27:04 PM
    - You pretty much cover it. - TB - 2/1/2007 1:57:36 AM
      - I think you missed the other helping of sarcasm in that passage - Yeti - 2/1/2007 3:40:03 AM
        
        Public financing - TB - 2/1/2007 3:54:59 AM
        
        Show me the money. - ER - 2/1/2007 4:27:29 PM
        
        re: Show me the money. - TB - 2/1/2007 5:19:11 PM
        
        In that order - ER - 2/1/2007 6:35:33 PM
  - spanking illegal - Lindy - 1/31/2007 11:31:28 PM
    - Never have spanked, never would - McFly - 2/1/2007 2:52:00 PM
      - I have. - TB - 2/1/2007 5:32:29 PM
        
        Just a personal choice on my part - McFly - 2/1/2007 6:37:33 PM
        
        Very nicely put McFly - Lindy - 2/1/2007 8:22:36 PM
        
        Discipline in schools - Laurie Street - 2/1/2007 10:38:19 PM
    - Never spanked a kid... - Arrell - 2/1/2007 7:45:42 AM
      - He he (n/t) - Martha - 2/2/2007 3:10:01 AM
      - ewwww.... Too much info (n/t) - Yeti - 2/1/2007 6:17:18 PM
    - re: spanking illegal - Laurie Street - 2/1/2007 6:08:35 AM
    - The law in question only pertains to children younger than 4 years old. (n/t) - alcaray - 2/1/2007 12:02:03 AM
    - re: spanking illegal - Lindy - 1/31/2007 11:35:04 PM
  - Don't flourecent light bulbs get treated as hazordous waste? (n/t) - Scott Evil - 1/31/2007 10:42:03 PM
    - They should be, hence my wording of the alternatives line (n/t) - Laurie Street - 1/31/2007 11:29:50 PM
  - (Picturing TB typing away furiously) (n/t) - LS - 1/31/2007 10:27:17 PM
    - He is a libertarian, after all. Many support several of your example positions. (n/t) - alcaray - 1/31/2007 10:49:47 PM
      - True. Curious to see his response to the drugs. - Laurie Street - 1/31/2007 11:28:12 PM
        
        re: True. Curious to see his response to the drugs. - gbaikie - 2/1/2007 12:22:18 AM

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