User Clip: 1994, (1) Fred Wertheimer

"There is too much special interest money. Which does undermine public confidence,

which is a central part of this problem uh- the fact of the matter is when you try to figure

out what goes on with campaign finance reform legislation and why it have problems.

There are various reasons that people will point to. The bottom line reason is

incumbents of both parties have sweetheart deals. They have enormous financial

advantages and any serious reform is going to require them to vote for change

that will take away some of their advantages and part of that advantage is they

have all the money they need and their challengers, as a group, do not have

access to the resources they need to compete." close