In this day and age, our politicians spend far too much of their time looking for campaign contributions and not enough communicating with their constituents.  Far too many campaigns (like CA-50) spend an obscene amount of money per vote they receive.  This not only give the appearance of corruption (and all to often the reality as well), but it shapes the kinds of candidates that run for office.  Too many of our candidates are rich or very well connected.

We need to seek solutions, and ones which improve politicians' ability to communicate to their constituents, and decrease the time they spend begging for money.   As I have mentioned before, we should consider requiring television and radio stations to provide advertising to candidates as part of the broadcast license.  We should also reduce the connection between money and access, as well as reduce the contribution limits.