Support Real Election Reform: Public Financing of Federal Elections!

Dear Representative,

I am writing to ask you to support real campaign reform that moves beyond just lobbying reform by supporting public financing of elections.

The way we finance our elections today has led to extraordinary corruption, and incremental reforms cannot stop the peddling of access and influence in Washington. The time has come to drastically change how we elect our leaders, and the solution we need is public funding of federal elections.

Public funding is already working at the state level in Arizona and Maine and was just passed by the Connecticut legislature. With public funding of federal elections, our leaders can focus on our country's significant and immediate problems rather than wasting far too much of their time raising money for their next election. And, more able leaders will be able to run for office -- not just millionaires or those with access to big money.

The cost to make public funding of federal elections a reality comes out to just $6 per citizen, for a total of $1.8 billion a year -- just a fraction of the wasted federal expenditures given as rewards to special interests and distributed through "pork barrel" spending every year.

I urge you to support public funding of federal elections. Our democracy depends on it! And just imagine, with public funding you'll never have to make those degrading calls to donors ever again.

Sincerely,

[Your name]
[Your address]