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Don't Take the Money and Runoff
September 16th, 2005

a pile o\' money is necessary to win an election As silly as it seems, maybe the runoff should go on after all says the Times in an on the one hand, on the other hand editorial. Stopping it, as some have asked, would let the Board of Elections decide state law — not a good precedent. But if the election does go forward, the paper urges that Fernando Ferrer turn down the $421,000 in public funds the campaign finance system would give him to campaign for an election he can’t lose. The paper concedes Ferrer faces a billionaire in November but still thinks ” it would be a terrible first step for his campaign to take hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayers’ money for an election in which he is the only candidate.”

By Gail Robinson on September 16, 2005, 8:32 am
In category: Electoral Politics | No Comments »

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