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  Advocates press S.C. lawmakers to pass 'clean' elections bill
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Last EditedSC Moose  May 03, 2007 03:32pm
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News DateThursday, May 3, 2007 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionIf taxpayers funded elections in South Carolina, candidates could spend their time talking to residents, instead of raising campaign cash, and would not be beholden to big-donor special interests after the election, supporters of a so-called "clean" elections bill told senators Wednesday.

"This is a bill to give the public greater trust in the system," its sponsor, Sen. Clementa Pinckney, D-Ridgeland, said during a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing. No vote was taken.

Pinckney said the proposal would cost each voting-age resident in South Carolina just a penny per day, for an estimated total of $10 million a year.

While that sounds great, it's not a realistic idea, said Sen. Robert Ford, D-Charleston.
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