U.S. District Court Takes Testimony on Discriminatory Public Funding Law

December 10th, 2008

A U.S. District Court in Connecticut is holding a two-day trial in Green Party of Connecticut v Garfield, the case that challenges the discriminatory aspects of Connecticut’s public funding law. See this story. Thanks to Dave Gillespie for the link.

One Response to “U.S. District Court Takes Testimony on Discriminatory Public Funding Law”

  1. ETJB Says:
    December 11th, 2008 at 9:42 am

    This is one of the very real problems facing public funding of elections and it one area that I rarely hears its proponents fully address.

    MN has optional-partial public funding (and a rebate offer) and it applies to a ‘major party’ — currently three exist; DFL, GOP and INP.

    The Greens used to be a ‘major party’, but lost the status a few years back.

    Personally, I do see why the line has to be drawn somewhere, on the basis of limited resources, but I would probably suggest that after an election the top six parties were major parties or something like that.