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Bill: Public Campaign Financing Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Capitalist Working Families
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: October 3851
Description[?]:
This bill stipulates that for every 1 RUT that a political candidate raises in the private sector, the Governments gives him/her 6 RUTs in public matching funds so that working class Rutanians can afford to run for public office. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Public financing of political campaigns
Old value:: Campaigns are never publicly financed.
Current: Candidates that accept public funds cannot accept donations.
Proposed: All candidates receive public funds, and can still accept donations.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:06:26, May 26, 2015 CET | From | Capitalist Working Families | To | Debating the Public Campaign Financing Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, No rebuttal to this common sense law??? |
| Date | 15:56:32, May 26, 2015 CET | From | Rutanian Democratic Party | To | Debating the Public Campaign Financing Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, The political parties of Rutania should never take public funds and tax dollars to finance a campign that they might not even support. With our current law people get to decide wether they want to give financial support and to which party it goes to. Your reform would completley reverse that. Sarah Eibenschütz Prime Minister |
| Date | 08:48:15, May 27, 2015 CET | From | Capitalist Working Families | To | Debating the Public Campaign Financing Act |
| Message | Ms. Eibenschutz of the RDP: If candidates don't receive public funds, ONLY wealthy and rich candidates and monied interests will win elections. We don't care if rich people use their own money to finance a campaign, just give poor candidates a FIGHTING CHANCE to seek office. ---Aimee Chambers-McKay Minister of Health and Social Scienct |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 149 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 256 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 150 |
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