The Boston Globe reports that Clean Elections public campaign financing is working in Maine and Arizona. The paper wishes it had a fair chance to work in Massachusetts.
In Maine and Arizona, Republicans and Democrats running as Clean Money candidates are enjoying not having to spend more than half of their time dailing for dollars. As the Boston Globe notes:
While there are dissenters in both states, the system is endorsed heavily by those who know it best - the candidates. In Arizona, the proportion of all candidates choosing to run under Clean Elections has grown from 26 percent in 2000 to 59 percent this year. The corresponding figures for Maine have also doubled, from 33 percent to 66.Clean elections works. It is a systemic reform that can have a major positive impact not only on elections but on how we are governed. It is time for the movement to spread. (Californians can learn about an effort in this state by following this link.)
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