He is Bill Bradley, the former senator from New Jersey, the only person still standing between Al Gore and the Democratic presidential nomination. He doesn't mince words on campaign reform. He has called for amending the Constitution to permit reasonable limits on campaign spending, a prospect that terrifies some First Amendment purists. The greater terror, in my view, is how the Supreme Court's distortion of the amendment is corrupting the political process. Whether one agrees or disagrees, America needs to hear Bradley on this subject.
Money distorts our democracy to an incredible degree.
There are a lot of great people trapped in a bad system. We need to liberate their time and creative energies from the money trap. If we believe in one person one vote, we need to reduce the role of money in politics since now, people with money have more clout than just one vote. It was timed to coincide with the Final Four, a good venue for a one-time basketball star like Bradley to prospect for contributions. The irony is that there was no time for a candidate who believes so strongly in campaign reform to speak where less affluent citizens might have heard him.