Look Who is Right on the Money

Before Donald Trump was for accepting donations from wealthy donors, he was attacking it.

But as one Republican said, “If there is one thing that unites both parties up here, it’s money.”

Today, we’re launching a new resource called “Right on the Money” to highlight conservative and Republican research, polling and statements from elected officials, thought-leaders and voters about what we believe is most important issue to our democracy today: money in politics reform.

The fear of corruption and too much influence from special interests isn’t new—James Madison wrote about it in the Federalist papers—but it has reached crisis-level proportions. We are witnessing in real-time a breakdown of our country’s ability to govern and fix problems.

Here’s some of what you will find:

• Former Ambassador and Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman wrote that money is poisoning our politics in Politico Magazine.

• 76 percent of Republicans agree with the statement, “Money has greater influence than ever before,” according to the Pew Research Center. (76 percent of Democrats do, too!)

• Some economists believe influence-peddling and the fight for favors from government are slowing down the economy and stalling start-up businesses.

• Conservatives support an executive order to mandate that all government contractors disclose their political spending

• Fox News and the New York Times agree: our campaign finance system that trades access and issues for campaign donations is broken and built to empower the will of the few over the needs of the many.

• Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush both won their elections using the public financing system.

Did we miss something? Don’t hesitate to contact us!