Anne Arundel just leveled the political playing field: Who is next? | COMMENTARY

In politics, money talks. And no one knows this better than the politicians running for elected office. It takes a lot of cash to pay for all those campaign ads, from TV commercials to pop-ups on social media, and the fastest way to raise the needed funds is to ask those who have a major stake in decision-making — from big business and labor unions to government contractors — to write the checks. The problem of how deep-pocketed special interests get access and influence (while average Joes are so often ignored) was greatly worsened by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision that largely deregulated how political campaigns can be financed. The best fix? To give the little guys a bigger say and the most effective way to do that has been for state and local governments to adopt small-donor public financing