used to be just a policy. it was a secretary of state office s that nobody even knew what was happening. the only reason anybody found out is because the new georgia project that has gone around registering folks to vote pulling in unlikely and new voters found 50,000 people they registered to vote one year were not on the voter rolls and that s when they found out the secretary of state s office had this policy of this exact match system. so they went into they have sued the secretary of state s office in georgia a number of times, but they came to a consensus on this particular piece of his policy. while that consensus came about, the secretary of state s office reached out to the legislature and the legislature ended up introducing a bill on this exact match policy. and the bill that we re now sitting here talking about today that has become law. this has been a calculated effort on the part of brian kemp. this is one example of what republicans are doing across the country to sup
happen post mccutchen, we re going to see more and more big dollar donations. but it s important for us to not get into despair, there are things that can happen. we can still have a small system, a small donor matching financing, governor cuomo here in new york, actually had a chance to make history and give us a system of public financing and he punted the ball on that and that s really unfortunate. whenever you have this issue of public financing come up, it came up with the obama campaign in 08, you can t compete with someone who can afford to bundle you billions of dollars. what we have seen is that a small donor match system, like they have in connecticut, like they have in new york actually can be competitive. it s a voluntary system. it s particularly effective at the state and local level. but we could do something like this in congress. there s a new bill in congress