Maine's clean elections


	Maine's clean elections

masbury

3-12-2008 9:37 PM

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politics, maine, public financing

masbury says:

83% of legislature elected without a dime of corporate money. Public financing has transformed politics - no one is beholden to corporations or rich folks.

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