I don't think candidates should take contributions from people if they don't have the most basic information about who they are. |
I think that's the craziest thing I've ever heard. |
If he was delivering for all his clients, I would be a lot more worried. Nobody wins all the time, and if you do win all the time you're doing something bad. |
In political communications, for citizens to evaluate the messages they are getting they need to know who the messenger is. |
It boils down to a shakedown. |
It really just seems like (Kelly and Howard) need to disentangle a bit so that the good work can go on without any murky questions. There is far too much commingling of what is personal and what is political in this state. |
It seems absolutely ridiculous to me that a campaign has trouble identifying who their big givers are. Ten-thousand-dollar contributions don't go unnoticed. |
It's kind of like a low-grade fever. It's not like people are running around saying, 'Oh, my goodness, the former governor is on trial.' We all know that. We've been living with this scandal for seven years now. |
It's really a problem of appearances in most cases. In 99 percent of the cases, it's something that looks bad, but you don't frequently have legislators who are necessarily swayed by this. But it is a concern. It can undermine public confidence. What people see they tend to believe, whether or not at its core it really is as nefarious as all that. |
The governor has been good for business. |
The system creates the perception that money is influencing justice. |
The vast majority of judges are extraordinarily honorable people, but when you've got big dollars flying around and a lot of special interests circling like hornets over judicial elections, it creates an impression that ultimately is damaging to the judiciary. |
Those are good proposals that we've heard from a lot of the candidates. It's not groundbreaking. |
To us it's critically important that we send a message that the disclosure law cannot be evaded. Twenty five thousand dollars is still a significant fine for the state board of elections. |
We have allowed judicial elections in this state to become rough-and-tumble political battlegrounds. |