No comments on CT going for complete public financing of elections?

[NewJeffCT]

I was surprised when Rell proposed this, and even more shocked when the Republican minority in the state legislature flip-flopped & came out in support of it. Any comments?

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All Aboard For Campaign Reform
Rell, Leaders On Record In Support
June 4, 2005
By MARK PAZNIOKAS, Courant Staff Writer

Senate Democrats, after two glum days watching Gov. M. Jodi Rell and Republican legislators run away with the Democratic bedrock issue of campaign finance reform, got into the game Friday.

Senate President Pro Tem Donald E. Williams Jr., D-Brooklyn, belatedly embraced Rell and Senate Republicans for dropping the GOP's opposition to public financing. He promised support.

"We welcome them to the fight, the fight for complete public financing, as we discussed at the beginning of this session," Williams said. "It's the right thing to do."

Williams and the Senate Democratic majority immediately upped the ante, pledging to craft a proposal that would include a sustainable source of funding.

http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-campfin0604.artjun04,0,5493746.story?coll=hc-headlines-politics-state