[EL] Mitt Romney on campaign finance

[Smith, Brad]

“Mitt Romney: ‘We’ve Gotta Rethink Campaign Finance'”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76371>
Posted on October 1, 2015 7:43 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76371> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

HuffPo<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mitt-romney-campaign-finance_560c0eade4b0768127001bd0>:

Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney called for campaign finance reform in the wake of the explosion of super PACs, which can receive unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions and individuals.

“We’ve really got a mess in the financial system with regard to campaigns right now,” the 2012 nominee said Wednesday in an interview at The Atlantic’s Washington Ideas Forum.

“We’ve gotta rethink campaign finance,” he added.

The former Massachusetts governor said it is a problem that shadowy super PACs can take “unlimited amounts of money,” while candidates themselves are “very strictly limited” in the amount of funding they are able to raise.
Though I certainly don’t speak for Mr. Romney here, I was a member of his Advisory Committee on the Constitution and the Courts. And I can agree with everything he is quoted on above, except for the word “shadowy,” which appears to be Huffpo’s, not Mitt’s.

Bradley A. Smith
Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault
  Professor of Law
Capital University Law School
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Columbus, OH 43215
(614) 236-6317
bsmith at law.capital.edu<mailto:bsmith at law.capital.edu>
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