Which Way, L.A.?
Campaign Finance Reform?
It's official, the US Senate will debate campaign finance reform this year. Is there any room for compromise? Are Clinton and Gore being let off the hook? Can Republicans and Democrats agree on the mothers' milk of politics?
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readJennifer Lamson: Vice president for Grassroots Lobbying, Common Cause. Jim Pinkerton: Lecturer at the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University; columnist for Newsday. Served as a domestic policy adviser in the Bush White House. Author of the "What Comes Next: The End of Big Government" and the "New Paradigm Ahead". David Corn: Washington editor, Nation magazine. Professor Herb Alexander: Professor of political science, USC, Director of the Citizen's Research Foundation, which studies political finance and campaign reform. Fred Yang: Partner, Garin/Hart/Yang Research, a Democratic polling firm based in Washington, D.C. Jan Baran: Head of the election and ethics law practice in the Washington law firm, Wiley, Rein, & Fielding. Former general counsel of the Republican National Committee. John Kurtzweil: Founder and editor of California Political Review Magazine, a bi-monthly conservative political journal focusing on state politics. Chair of a new political action committee that calls "Recall Republican Traitors". Richard Aubey: Assistant District Director, Internal Revenue Service Los Angeles district.
