In December 2005, the Democratic leaders of the state legislature exulted across party lines with then-Gov. M. Jodi Rell, a Republican, about how they had just made history – by approving a clean-elections law that included a system of public financing of political campaigns.
Why Use Public Money To Finance Campaigns That Aren't 'clean' Of Special Interest Money?
Jon Lender, Hartford Courant
Fri, 10/17/2014 - 11:12am
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