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Biss on board with Pritzker’s publicly funded campaign idea
Wednesday, May 23, 2018 - Posted by Rich Miller * JB Pritzker spoke to the Evanston chapter of Action for a Better Tomorrow this week and said something for the first time…
Pritzker has previously referred to his support for publicly financed judicial races, but never specifically ruled out statewide campaigns until now. * But that’s not all Pritzker said on the topic. From a tracker video..
That would be Sen. Daniel Biss’ bill to set up a publicly funded small donor matching system for all campaigns. That would also be the same Sen. Biss who recently endorsed Pritzker, but first wanted the nominee to come around on this issue. * Pritzker also said this in Evanston, however…
* I asked Biss about Pritzker’s opposition to publicly financed statewide campaigns and he chose to look on the bright side…
Well, Daniel pretty much killed my “mess with JB” post, but whatevs. I guess he really is with Team JB now. * The questions were pretty interesting, though. Biss may be on board, but some members of the audience clearly weren’t buying in…
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- DuPage - Wednesday, May 23, 18 @ 3:30 pm:
Biss would be in favor of it because he didn’t have enough funding to take on other candidates. I wonder where the “public” funding would come from? Schools? Roads? Where?
- Arsenal - Wednesday, May 23, 18 @ 3:34 pm:
==I guess he really is with Team JB now.==
One of the things that made Biss frustrating in the primary is that he’d never really been an anti-establishment bomb-thrower before. He disagreed with party leadership, but wasn’t looking for a fight. So it felt like he was putting on airs in the primary, and I’m glad he’s getting away from that.
To the policy- I agree with Biss that if you’re going to publicly fund some elections, you might as well include the statewide ones, too. But in the near future that’s a pretty heavy lift, both financially and politically (who wants their tax dollars going into a campaign account?).
- Birdy - Wednesday, May 23, 18 @ 3:48 pm:
Small donor matching for state leg. candidates would be a big deal and I hope JB sticks to it. Interesting that he wants to shield the governor’s office from publicly financed competitors though…hm…
- Two-State Solution - Wednesday, May 23, 18 @ 3:50 pm:
Pritzker: “think about how much money is going to be spent in this attorney general’s race.”
Pritzker points to the AG’s race as an example of the amount of money it takes to run statewide? Lol.
- Blue sky - Wednesday, May 23, 18 @ 4:01 pm:
If Pritzker were smart he’d embrace this across the board. It would show he was serious about fixing the system when otherwise he’s just a walking talking symbol for how broken it is.
- Actual Red - Wednesday, May 23, 18 @ 4:07 pm:
@Arsenal
Despite my status as resident Biss shill, I agree with you that he wore the anti-establishment hat pretty uncomfortably, from both a personal and political standpoint. I think one of the most important things a candidate needs to pull of the outsider thing is an aura of authenticity. I think that’s what got Sanders as far as he got, and probably a big part of what got Trump elected. I think Biss was ultimately too much of a wonky math professor to pull it off.
All this to say he’s probably more comfortable as a legislator than a gubernatorial candidate.
- Arsenal - Wednesday, May 23, 18 @ 4:10 pm:
==All this to say he’s probably more comfortable as a legislator than a gubernatorial candidate.==
Alas, that’s out, for now, too.
He’d be a pretty good agency director.
- Dog on Sheffield - Wednesday, May 23, 18 @ 4:11 pm:
matching-funds schemes have been found to violate first amendment in a few cases. Did not read Biss’ bill, but it would have to be very carefully crafted
- Actual Red - Wednesday, May 23, 18 @ 4:24 pm:
@Arsenal
I actually think he would be a pretty good governor, but you’re probably right on that too.
- Birdy - Wednesday, May 23, 18 @ 4:26 pm:
Dog on Sheffield, there are plenty of matching-funds schemes around the country without constitutional problems.
- Yiddishcowboy - Wednesday, May 23, 18 @ 4:37 pm:
Great, diplomatic response Sen. Biss. I’ve busted your chops before on a variety of issues, but I’m proud of you for not bad-mouthing JB on this matter. You’re improving. Mazel.
- Grandson of Man - Wednesday, May 23, 18 @ 4:47 pm:
With Rauner as governor, the key is to try to put aside or work through differences and not be disunited because the candidate is not left-wing or progressive enough (or the opposite). I’m glad to see unity building around Pritzker. There are vast differences between the two political parties, as we can see with tax cuts for the wealthy and RtW spreading in GOP-controlled states. What states didn’t expand Medicaid? How many states went RtW since the the GOP wave that started in 2010?
- Three Dimensional Checkers - Wednesday, May 23, 18 @ 5:40 pm:
This is could be baf on JB’s part. The leftists will vote for a third party candidate if they feel provoked. It seems like JB is poking them in the eye a bit in walking back from the statewide races and small dollar matching proposals.
- Three Dimensional Checkers - Wednesday, May 23, 18 @ 6:55 pm:
Contribution limits are a dead end after Citizens United too. It just seems like JB isn’t saying much here, and he is saying little in an ineffective manner.
- Da Big Bad Wolf - Thursday, May 24, 18 @ 6:25 am:
Since Rauner has a link to Dick Simpson’s report about corruption on his website, and Simpson’s first recommendation is public funding of elections, is this an issue that Rauner is going to run on that is opposite of Pritzker?