FINALLY! — Two Congressmen call for public campaign financing

Wisconsin’s David Obey and Massachusetts’ Barney Frank, both Democrats, said Jan. 25 they will introduce legislation to establish public financing of Congressional campaigns, similar to our current publicly financed presidential election system.

“The problem with politics is more fundamental than meals or trips with lobbyists,” Obey said in a statement.

Please, please, please, both now and when Obey and Frank introduce the appropriate legislation, call your Congressperson and urge him or her to support public campaign financing.

No, it won’t be a cure-all; our current presidential system shows that.

But, for those old enough to remember, would you want to go back to Nixon’s 1972 Presidential campaign — just the finance issues, leaving out Watergate?