The Government of the Student Body elections have gotten me thinking about the tricky issue of campaign finance.

Candidates for positions in the GSB have a spending cap. A GSB presidential candidate cannot spend more than $1,000, no matter where the money came from, including in-kind donations (or at least that’s the way it’s been explained to me).

What if the U.S. elections were run that way? What if no presidential candidate could spend more than $5 million, period, regardless of source of income, or anything else? We would have had Bush and Kerry chalking sidewalks, perhaps. But whatever would be the result, couldn’t it clean up a lot of mess?

Michael Ekstrand

Junior

Computer Engineering