A Typical Letter in Support of Campaign Finance Reform

To Senator Wooten, from Mary Wildfire, mwildfire@hotmail.com: 

I'm writing to urge you to support SCR 42, which would send the WV Clean Elections Act into an interim study. 

Almost every election, fewer people vote. Why is this? I have done some voter registration, and I can tell you that it is NOT apathy, nor great contentment with the status quo. Why bother to register or vote, people asked me, when the whole game is rigged? The rich get their people in and their laws passed; they are the only real players. I'd like to tell them they're wrong, that what goes on under that golden dome is a fair interplay of differing opinion-- but that would be a fairy tale, wouldn't it? A lie, even. The current system guarantees that those with the bucks get their say. I believe that public funding of elections is the only way to ensure that it's the public that calls the tune. Perhaps this WV Clean Elections Act isn't the perfect solution; all the more reason to study it carefully in the interims, when there is time. 

Thank you, 

Mary Wildfire, President WV Environmental Council