Public Funding Folly

Those who regard taxpayer financing of any campaign for public office as a bad idea can take special delight in the embarrassment that has befallen public funding of Wisconsin Supreme Court races.
Two of the four candidates have met the arcane qualifications for public funding. One who did not, liberal bureaucrat Marla Stephens of the state Public Defender’s office, spins her decision not to take the tax money this way: “we want to have the resources we need to get our message out to the whole state. This is a campaign to bring justice to all of us, rich people and poor people and everyone in-between."

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