Joe Wineke on Fixes For Our System:

Fixing the system should not really be that hard - and shouldn't require much courage. Just do the following:
• Go to full public funding of our elections. For less than $10 per person, we could take the influence of money out of our system - forever.
• Restore the power of the committee system in our Legislature. We need to disperse power into many more hands.
• Require all bills that are to be voted on to have at least one public hearing with at least 24 hours notice.
• No longer allow bills to be pulled from the Joint Committee on Tax Exemptions. This might sound like a small thing, but this used to be the one committee that could protect the Legislature from passing tax breaks for the special interests. Restore this protection.
• Use the Legislative Service Agencies. There is more talent in these four agencies than there is in the whole of the Legislature. Why waste this incredible talent?