Buddy Roemer: Candidate Who Backs Campaign Finance Reform, Excluded from Debates.
We speak with Buddy Roemer, a candidate who is on the Republican ballot in New Hampshire but has not been invited to this weekend’s two Republican debates—or any of the past 16 debates—even though he is a former governor of Louisiana and four-term member of Congress. Roemer’s campaign is unusual in the Republican field: He has refused to accept campaign contributions more than $100, rejected all donations from political action committees, and has made campaign finance the key plank in his platform. He has also endorsed the Occupy Wall Street movement.
"[President Obama] gets elected, and he says he wants change. But he takes all his money from these same corporations who don’t want change," Roemer says. "Special interests control Washington. I’ve been there."
