A Clear Vote for Limiting Campaigns
In your story about Hal Bernson’s rejection of a proposed limit on campaign spending, you quote him as saying, “Spending limits only help people who can’t raise money. . . . They’re designed to make the better funded candidates tie one hand behind their backs.”
He obviously doesn’t understand that this very attitude is the reason that campaign spending limits are desperately needed.
Nor does he seem to realize that in a democratic society, the ability to solicit bribes from political action committees and other special interest groups is not one of the criteria that one should use to elect a councilman, or any other politician, to represent them.
M. STEPHEN SHELDON
Studio City
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