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Campaign Unavailable We're sorry, this alert is no longer available.The short explanation of this alert was: VICTORY! The Connecticut legislature made history when the House voted 82 to 65 in the wee hours of the morning to approve the Clean Elections bill. The House vote followed a 27 to 8 Senate vote hours before. Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell has indicated that she will sign the bill in the coming days. Connecticut will become the first state in the nation where the legislature and governor approved full public financing for their own races. Connecticut joins the ranks of Arizona and Maine among states with full public financing of statewide and legislative races. North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Vermont have Clean Money systems for some races, and the municipalities of Portland, Oregon and Albuquerque, New Mexico recently approved full public financing for citywide races. Through your hard work and volunteerism, ongoing phone calls, and e-mails, we successfully kept the pressure on the legislature that ultimately will bring full public financing of elections to Connecticut. We should all be very proud for what we have accomplished.
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