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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMitt Romney: 'We've Gotta Rethink Campaign Finance'
WASHINGTON -- Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney called for campaign finance reform in the wake of the explosion of super PACs, which can receive unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions and individuals.
"We've really got a mess in the financial system with regard to campaigns right now," the 2012 nominee said Wednesday in an interview at The Atlantic's Washington Ideas Forum.
Weve gotta rethink campaign finance," he added.
The former Massachusetts governor said it is a problem that shadowy super PACs can take "unlimited amounts of money," while candidates themselves are "very strictly limited" in the amount of funding they are able to raise.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mitt-romney-campaign-finance_560c0eade4b0768127001bd0
"We've really got a mess in the financial system with regard to campaigns right now," the 2012 nominee said Wednesday in an interview at The Atlantic's Washington Ideas Forum.
Weve gotta rethink campaign finance," he added.
The former Massachusetts governor said it is a problem that shadowy super PACs can take "unlimited amounts of money," while candidates themselves are "very strictly limited" in the amount of funding they are able to raise.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mitt-romney-campaign-finance_560c0eade4b0768127001bd0
Must have slipped his mind in 2012.
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Mitt Romney: 'We've Gotta Rethink Campaign Finance' (Original Post)
brooklynite
Oct 2015
OP
Now BEG our forgiveness for making Benghazi a political mess, you son of a bitch
randys1
Oct 2015
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randys1
(16,286 posts)1. Now BEG our forgiveness for making Benghazi a political mess, you son of a bitch
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)2. We've already rethunk it...
what we need is to do something about it.
msongs
(67,401 posts)3. he is only concerned that billionaires are restricted from spending their own $$. He is not really
concerned about the totals
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)4. Bold thinking there, Mr. Romney
Though his main objection, as I read his remarks, is that the Big Money Boyz can't give unlimited money to the puppet of their choice.