We will ask that all candidates raise at least a majority of their funds from individuals residing in the district which the candidate seeks to represent. We reunite the voting precinct with the financial precinct, and restore to individual voters their rightful role as the key player influencing the election outcome. Therefore, in order to further strengthen the role of individuals our bill equalizes the level of giving between PACs and individuals. We also eliminate partisan and congressional leadership PACs. We do all these to restore to individuals their role as the primary influence in determining election outcomes.
Current laws diminish the role of political parties.
We want to restore parties to their historical role in elections, enhance their grassroots activities and their important and unique role in broadening and strengthening citizen involvement. We believe our proposal meets the test of our four basic principles. We have suggested reforms that should reduce corruption or the appearance of corruption in our elections. We have avoided embracing the latest reform fads, we have avoided the easy but flawed answers. We have moved beyond the inadequate ideas of the past and, instead, we have adopted new ideas for more competitive elections where the citizen and not the special interest plays the deciding role.