Last year I wrote this:
No matter how bad the budget deficit gets, leftists in Annapolis still always come back the bad idea of public campaign financing:
So guess what bad idea just got a major boost?
Prospects for public financing of General Assembly campaigns should get a major boost Friday, when Sen. President Thomas V. Mike Miller is expected to announce his support for a plan similar to one that failed in his chamber by a single vote in 2007, when he opposed it.
A previous opponent of public campaign financing, Miller lent his support to this year's version after good-government advocates agreed that traditional limits on campaign contributions should be raised for the first time in years, according to a person familiar with the proposal.