[45605] in Cypherpunks
RE: Political Cleanup program
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim bell)
Tue Dec 19 02:07:03 1995
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 22:13:50 -0800
To: Russ Cooper <rcooper@the-wire.com>
From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 03:09 PM 12/17/95 -0500, you wrote:
>A much simpler solution might be to just force all politicians to give up
>their campaign funds when they retire, or even better, immediately
>following the elections. Today, whatever is left in their campaign funds
>are given over to them when they retire or are forced out of office, on top
>of their lucrative pensions.
>
For Congress, I think this changed a few years ago. Before a certain date,
retiring Congressmen could convert unused campaign funds to their own money.
At some point they changed the rules, and that is no longer the case.
