POL 321 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Early Voting, Watergate Scandal, Socioeconomics
3 Sep 2019
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Reading notes for class 2 thurs aug 22. Jon grant ran for city council, didn"t get rich donors; small, grassroots donations instead, but battling incumbant with big funding. Seattle then tried to solve this influence tied to money problem: didn"t win of course; he"s trying to represent people without money, didn"t remove big money, but added a lot of small money. Seattle gave vouchers to residents for supporting political candidates; did this by raising property taxes: wayne barnett ran this democracy voucher program, program was hoping this would also get candidates to talk to voters more. It gave bigger voice to people who didn"t have one; example is gina owens, Successful part is that neither was an incumbant, established, well-funded person. Reading: usa elections in brief by us dept. of state (2007) Senate: same but >=30 & citizen 9 years.
