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As taxpayers decide whether to direct three dollars for public financing of election campaigns, a look at the public financing system and whether this years presidential candidates will choose to participate.
Trevor Potter, currently serving as general counsel for Senator John McCain and former chair of the Federal Election Commission
Michael Malbin, Executive Director, Campaign Finance Institute and Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Albany.
Mary Jacoby, political and investigative reporter, Wall Street Journal
Robert Bauer, an attorney in private practice currently serving as campaign attorney for Senator Barack Obama
The executive editor and anchor of "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" continues his prolific ways with the eight book of the One-Eyed Mack series. This time the lieutenant governor of Oklahoma - One-Eyed Mack - is caught between an over-the-top governor and a friend who fled to France but is now back in Lehrer's beloved Oklahoma and wants to challenge the governor's bid for re-election.
Jim Lehrer, executive editor and anchor of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS and author of two memoirs, three plays, and sixteen novels.