I have to agree with the Supreme Court, as much as I believe that money has polluted politics and that it buys campaigns. I believe far more in Free Speech.

There has to be a better solution.

One possible proposed solution, if you can believe it, is to increase the size of the House of Representatives. It was frozen at 435 a long time ago but our population keeps swelling. The *theory* goes that more offices mean more candidates which means a representative has a much smaller constituency and is more likely to listen to The People than The Corporations because the coporations can't buy EVERYone. In other words, by artificially freezing the supply of Congresscritters, you've increased their power making them more attractive to being bought.

In NH, that just doesn't work. We have the 3rd largest legislative body in the world and we pay our reps $150/year. You read that right - my phone bill is more than we pay our reps in a year.

I also happen to agree with term limits and the Line Item Veto, and support the idea of Constitutional Ammendments to get them if need be (since the Supreme Court said the LIV, as done from the Contract With America, was unconstitutional).