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Attack Ads Fill Airwaves Despite Supreme Court Public Financing Law

Quoted: “I don?t think it is working out quite as they hoped,” said Ken Mayer, a political scientist at University of Wisconsin-Madison, of the law passed by the Legislature. “The idea is that you would free the candidates from the need to raise any money at all, and the problem is that the amounts that candidates are given is about $300,000, which isn?t nearly enough to run a high-visibility campaign.”