Trippi: Opt out of public funding

[arcos]

Time for a second Boston Tea Party
Kerry should renounce public funding and big donors

BOSTON - It is somehow appropriate that the Fleet Center, where the National Democratic Convention begins Monday, looks out over Boston Harbor, where more than two centuries ago tea was dumped off a ship and into the roiling waters of revolt against a government that had lost touch with its people.

Now, as Democrats gather from around the nation to anoint John Kerry their nominee for president, the moment is ripe to once again put the tea in the harbor. This time, however, the revolt is not against a distant monarch, but rather a money soaked political system that has ill served our nation

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Tomorrow I was to receive $75,000,000 from the Federal Government to fund my campaign – instead with this announcement I will start with nothing. You will fund this campaign or it will not be funded – the American people will carry this candidacy or my candidacy will fail. It is in your hands now.”

When the gasps of disbelief die down, Kerry could continue:

“No one man or woman can change the politics of money in Washington by themselves, but what I can do is give you the opportunity to change it together for ourselves and our nation. And if you join this cause you will not only change Presidents, you will change a broken political system that has failed us – and restore the spirit of those who threw tea in Boston Harbor over 200 years ago and launched a great nation founded on the simple notion of government by the people.”

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5516785/

[TrueAmerican]

1. This is my idea

Do a search for "TrueAmerican" and you will find it.

[TrueAmerican]

3. He will make more than 75 million

in the 3 months to the convention. Easily.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. If we can get over $100 MIllion privately then yes.....

we should opt out.

[leyton]

4. If Kerry has money on hand...

then he gets to keep that, too, doesn't he? Seems to me he ought to have ten or twenty million.

My worry is: can he keep up fundraising? Yes, he's been raising money at a faster rate than Bush, but it is conceivable that people who are giving to him are giving to him now because they know that the deadline is coming up. Will he find new donors once the convention is over and he says, "Oops, you can keep giving after all!"