But I worry about the energy it takes. We're out there raising money all the time. The bills would also eliminate political action committees, thereby denying the right of individuals who feel strongly about a given issue to form associations for the purpose of promoting their views. To ask the question is to answer it. The point is that in all of this so-called reform the political process ends up more crabbed.
Debate is chilled.
First Amendment rights are trampled. In California, Common Cause has an initiative on the November ballot that goes further than the above in every instance and even has a provision that would make it illegal to raise money for a campaign more than six months before an election. Now, ask yourself who benefits from that sort of nonsense. Contrast that with the motivation for term limits. Americans want to open up the political process.