Where do they stand? Senate candidates on campaign finance

Money and Politics in the 2013 Elections

CAMPAIGN FINANCE HAS ALWAYS been a ticklish subject for many, one often avoided by many a candidate and a voter. And why not? Many complain that they would rather avoid dealing with numbers; politics is complicated enough without having to do math as well.

Yet campaign finance has become one of the leading issues of the 2010 and 2013 elections, as the public and the media learn to slowly look beyond the rhetoric and peek at the numbers. How much are candidates willing to spend to bag a position, and where do they get their funding? Where do they stand on issues like the pork barrel.

Do you know where the senatorial candidates stand on the issue of campaign finance? In this series of brief interviews done by PCIJ’s research section with many of the senatorial candidates, we look at some of the basic issues of campaign finance and what we can expect from these senatorial hopefuls if they do get elected into the upper chamber.

Baldomero Falcone