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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (7642)	5/7/2006 9:01:13 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 71588

This is one of the problems with our current state of election laws. We should get rid of all restrictions on campaign contributions. It might be better to have a politician owe their election to one or two very wealthy contributors rather than have them parsing out favors to hundreds of contributors. Requiring disclosure before any election of all contributions (even last minute ones) would make it clear who the politician had sold out to, and voters would decide if that was a bad idea. For instance if I took $10M from the lunar society, some people might think I would vote for NASA and other space exploration, and use that information to vote me down. If my opponent took $5M each from the government union and the teacher's union others might prefer a space head to a bureaucrat and vote me in.