Quote Originally Posted by Irving View Post
Why should it cost more than $1 million to get your point across to the piblic?
Why can't you spend $1M if you want to get your point across to the public? A 30 sec spot on the Super Bowl costs $5M but gets your points to one of the wider audiences imaginable even with how the NFL has beat themselves up this year. We ran really low budget in the Recall Morse campaign but most politically-oriented efforts can get very expensive very fast and even as dedicated as our volunteers were, we'd have failed to get the necessary signatures in time without hiring paid canvassers since most of the volunteers were working people.

My point on spending limits is that it's just another tool by those who want to restrict speech. Sunshine laws are better because they let someone get the equivalent of as much speech as they want or can pay for but the public gets the information on how it was paid for.

As far as term limits go, we've seen the effect they have in many locales. Can you show any state or municipality with term limits where it has improved anything? I'd rather have someone I can hold accountable at the ballot box even if they can pile on a third or fourth or fifth or even sixth term than push more power to the unelected faceless staffers and bureaucrats.