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Obama Rejects Public Funds for Campaign, Entitlements

by Scott Ott · 255 Comments

(2008-06-20) — Democrat presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama announced today that in addition to rejecting taxpayer funding for his general election campaign, he will also forgo public funding for government entitlement programs once he reaches the White House.
“The public financing of presidential elections as it exists today is broken,” said Sen. Obama. “The public financing [...]

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Tags: Politics