Letter: Case article lean on real voter solutions

The quarter-page article, “Case ready to bring change to Washington” (Star-Advertiser, Dec. 26), is a whole lot of words and wasted ink to cover only three brief changes: ensuring campaign finance reforms, ethics laws and ease voter registration, all six lines in just one paragraph.

Your readers are malnourished for real policy information from Ed Case. What are his goals for real campaign finance reform? People want the elimination of rich corporate dollars buying the decisions made by politicians, political parties and policy initiatives, and to invalidate the 2010 “Citizens United” decision that allows all this. We want government matching public financing reforms that prevent the transparent evils of “pay to play.”

Is Case going after Donald Trump and his family for violating the emolument clause and to ensure high ethical standards and laws strictly enforced in Washington? Will he fight for automatic voter registration, all-paper ballots and/or mail-in votes to eliminate voter machine fraud and fiercely fight against gerrymandering and put accountability of “every vote count” in our elections?

Let’s have more meat and potatoes in this paper’s reporting. We’re starving for a transparent and effective government.

Brad Baang

Waianae

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