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By CHRIS POWELL Connecticut’s system of “public” financing of election campaigns, the Citizens Election Program, established in 2005 under Gov. Jodi Rell, still sounds good in principle. Candidates for state office who restrict themselves to small donations and raise a threshold amount qualify for fairly substantial grants of campaign money from state government.  Connecticut DemocratsContinue reading “Public campaign financing has yet to improve the state”