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RE: Political Cleanup program

To: Russ Cooper <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Political Cleanup program
From: jim bell <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 22:13:50 -0800
Cc: [email protected]
Sender: [email protected]

At 03:09 PM 12/17/95 -0500, you wrote:
>A much simpler solution might be to just force all politicians to give up 
>their campaign funds when they retire, or even better, immediately 
>following the elections. Today, whatever is left in their campaign funds 
>are given over to them when they retire or are forced out of office, on top 
>of their lucrative pensions.
>
For Congress, I think this changed a few years ago.  Before a certain date,
retiring Congressmen could convert unused campaign funds to their own money.
At some point they changed the rules, and that is no longer the case.

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