July 16, 2008 - 5:29pm
Public finance commissioners selected
By Brian Lawson
Category: LocalTags: Public Funding of Elections Commission, public financing, New Hampshire Coalition for Public Funding of Elections
The New Hampshire Coalition for Public Funding of Elections has announced the appointments of commissioners who will serve on a commission to study the possibility of public financing for state elections.
The commission, Public Funding of Elections Commission, was established by the state legislature to study the feasibility of public financing of elections and must issue a report by December 1, 2008.
Selected were Stuart Comstock-Gay, Concord Democrat and director of the Democracy Program at Demos: A Network of Ideas and Action, Abigail Abrash Walton, Independent from Keene and faculty member at Antioch University New England; John Rauh, New Castle Democrat and president of Americans for Campaign Reform; Jim Rubens, Republican, former state senator from Etna; Martin Honigberg, Concord Democrat, attorney at Sulloway and Hollis; Brad Cook, Republican from Manchester, attorney at Sheehan, Phinney, Bass, and Green; and Barbara Hilton, Independent Citizen Activist from Portsmouth.
Comstock-Gay and Abrash Walton were appointed by the president of the senate; Rauh and Rubens were appointed by the speaker of the house; Honigberg and Cook were appointed by the governor, and Hilton was appointed by the secretary of state.
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Waste of taxpayers money
As if a $200 million budget deficit is not enough, now we are wasting taxpayer dollars on this lame-brain commission.
If you want to publicly finance something, how about giving state legislators a raise to, oh let's see, maybe $150 per year.
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