Reflections from Cindy and Ken

[Taylor Willingham <taylor@bwillingham.com>]

Ken Venn has suggested the following points made by Cindy O'Connor in an earlier posting are the start of some criteria for campaign finance reform that might well reflect the group's common ground. 

"1. It should enable and encourage fair competition
2. It should have means to reward and encourage citizen egagement and participation.
3. It should encourage and provide for open discussion and media
coverage of issues.
4. It should encourage faith and trust in elected officials through rewards for personal voter contact"

Ken proposed adding

"5. It should have a non-partisan agency with the power and funding to guarantee that Criteria 1-4 are abided by."

Can the group live with these statements as reflections of our common ground? Notice that we need not wordsmith - rather think, "Can I live with these?" If not, what IN PARTICULAR, is a sticking point and what alternative would you offer that is both a statement that you can live with AND is still a relfection of the what the group was saying?

Taylor