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Mr Beer and Popcorn thinks its not fair

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David Herle, former campaign manager for the Liberal Party's last two electoral campaigns, told CBC Newsworld's Politics host Don Newman last week that the campaign financing rules for leadership campaigns should be changed because under the current rules in place, fundraising is an uphill battle. He argued that political parties rely on public financing for running election campaigns but leadership campaigns do not have any such arrangement. So, he said the law should be changed to give a reasonable opportunity to leadership candidates to raise money.

"Every candidate is really struggling for money in this campaign, some of them desperately, but everybody is really short of money and it creates a moral hazard and I think the law needs to be changed," said Mr. Herle.

I highlighted those two statements to point out why that they still haven't figured out that

1. Why should tax payers foot the bill for any political campaign?
2. What is a "moral hazard"?

Both of those statements premise Mr. Herle's belief that the law ought to be changed because its too hard for the liberals to get by.
News flash for a Davey. I can't go to the government to get cash to pay for my bills and I won't foresee any time soon that any financial institution will give me a loan in the hundreds of thousands to run a campaign.

posted by gimbol @ 2:42 AM