EXCLUSIVE: MAJOR DONORS PUSH FOR CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM America's rich are uniting

EXCLUSIVE: MAJOR DONORS PUSH FOR CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM America's rich are uniting, hoping to cast off the chains of nagging phone calls from politicians soliciting contributions. A powerful group of 25 major donors has signed a pledge to withhold cash from any politician who doesn't sign on to the Larson-Jones FAIR Elections Now Act, which would usher in real public campaign financing. Public financing would result in diminished influence for special interests and, in fact, the donors themselves. Steve Kirsch, who kicked in $10 million to try to elect Al Gore in 2000, told HuffPost Hill he's willing to accept the reduced access - since that access rarely translates into results. "It is a trade off, because there are a lot of good things you can talk to them about, but most of the time they don't do anything about it anyway. Given the choice, I'd rather have campaign finance reform than access," he said. The 25 donors plan to lobby other rich folks to sign on, with a plan of passing the FAIR Act, which has some 140 cosponsors, this year. The campaign's being run by Change Congress, co-founded by Lawrence Lessig and Joe Trippi, along with Common Cause and the Public Campaign Action Fund. More on the donor strike, and the full list of the donors, in HuffPost tomorrow.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/11/huffpost-hill---may-11-20_n_572435.html

and their $$$ will override - out-finance ANYTHING almost everything else.

The major donors are still mostly greedy *ssholes, only looking out for their own *ss.

and thousandaire joins in their support.

as far as bang for the buck.

,create interest type films, and continue to utilize the media they own to shape/control public opinion while adding to the illusion of "power to the people".

In other words they may now feel they can skip the "middle men" in light of Citizens United and avoid the heat of being tied directly to pols.