The most realistic situation could be is that potential challengers don't see the possibility of winning due to the campaign war chests that the incumbents build up.
The system has basically been rigged to protect incumbents and discourage competition.
The key requirement is that any plan that passes this commission has to pass by ten votes, so you're going to have to have consensus among all these members of the commission for a plan to pass.
It (the current system) is a question of who's in power and who is able to use the process for political purposes.
When voters go into the voting booth and they read what's being proposed, it's going to be like common sense to them. It's a basic conflict of interest for legislators to draw their own districts.
That's going to mean that there's going to have to be some consensus across party lines and among independents.
Bush raised money up to that level, then stopped and allowed the party to take over the funding of the campaign and the advertising. After that point, public financing in Florida has not really been doing what it was meant to do in the beginning.
It's kind of troublesome. They're getting around the intent of the law to require that parties and committee disclose what they're spending their money on.
The whole idea behind public financing was to hold down the cost of campaigns and encourage more people to participate. Now they've escalated campaign fund-raising to levels we've never seen.
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