[EL] The perverse effects of public funding of election

[Bill Maurer]

Well, I wouldn't say his entire adult life-he apparently has a hobby he regularly enjoys.

The New York Post today actually has an editorial today about a much more serious problem than Anthony Weiner staying in the race and that is John Liu perhaps being forced out because the Board has denied him matching funds due to any number of hijinks and shenanigans associated with campaign.  I don't know the specifics of denying people matching funds under New York's system, but it seems to me that people gave the money to him in the expectation that there would be matching funds and denying him those funds interferes with the donors' expectations on how the system would operate.  I find it somewhat disturbing that a government agency can essentially determine to put Liu's campaign on life support on its own accord.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/the_candidate_killers_CM2FFHqhtGK6TrIeSTyBAM

From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Margaret Groarke
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Of course, the fact that he has $5 million in the bank -- not public money -- to spend on this race, doesn't encourage him to quit either. Or his personality, or the fact that he's been doing really well in the polls until quite recently, or the fact that quitting would require him to entirely rethink what he has spent his entire adult life doing . . .

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 7:58 AM, <JBoppjr at aol.com<mailto:JBoppjr at aol.com>> wrote:
Click here: Pundits ask: Why won't Weiner just leave NYC race? - Worcester Telegram & Gazette - telegram.com<http://www.telegram.com/article/20130804/NEWS/308049695/1052>

Easy answer, public funding.  Jim Bopp

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