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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jack Clarke who wrote (8495)	2/26/1998 1:54:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Jack, I would agree that a viable third party is needed in the United States. It looked for a brief period that we had one with Perot, but he ended up acting a little disturbed. Perhaps the Libertarian Party will continue to grow. Term limits sound like a good idea; I believe the courts in California have recently upheld our new term limit laws. Really strict campaign finance reform laws might work, also. Perfectly good governments are elected in other industrialized nations with much shorter and less extravagant campaigns. Of course, that would require citizens to study platforms and read voter information packets and generally keep themselves informed without television advertising blitzes. But a system where only candidates who are very rich, charismatic, or highly skilled at raising huge sums of money, opening themselves up to the temptations of corruption, does not seem to be working very well. I thought the Clinton administration was going to tackle these issues, especially campaign financing reform. It seems to have been put on a back burner, somehow!