give an incumbent achoice
between being able to be
financially successful baed on
campaigning for small donations
in their homeate versus being
on the phone and lovely talking
to total strangers allover the
country and being in a
compromising position when you
have to go to the people who
might find you because of where
you stand on the committee, that
they take the smallonor
system.
and we're seeing not
increasingly becse the current
system has become so untenable.
i think if you look at the whole
financial regulation debate
coming of lawmakers who are
years depended on wall street
monday, saying how di take
that money because i need that
money to run?
but on the other hand, how do i
look good taking any of this
money when the public is focused
on this issue?
also cannot system doesn't work
so well anymore for a of the
accumbens.
again, we're not a 50% yet but
if the vote were hel to
maryland house, we would win it
and i think the senate is
perhaps one congress away from
being abl to...