Campaign Reform Key Topic for Garrett
February 20, 2009 2:43 PM
Elizabeth Garrett leads a double life. As USC’s vice president for academic planning and budget, she has a packed schedule of administrative meetings. But as the Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, Political Science, and Policy, Planning, and Development, she also manages a healthy amount of national scholarship in law and the political process.
It was the latter that took her to Washington, D.C., on Feb. 5-6 for a meeting of the national governing board for Common Cause. Garrett has been a member of the board since 2005 and chair of the nonprofit’s finance committee since 2006.
At the meeting, Garrett said, discussion involved an innovative new campaign finance reform proposal Common Cause is promoting. The proposal, which includes six steps to end the pay-to-play culture in Washington and provide transparency in campaign funding, can be seen at www.common cause.org
“It’s a hybrid public financing proposal, combining the strong influence of small donors that we saw in the Obama campaign with public financing to make it possible for people without access to huge amounts of money to run for office,” she said.
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