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It is hard to envision a viable public financing system stripped of the ammunition to award trigger funds.
If a candidate's means are great enough, there is a limit as to how much trigger funds can help a financially overwhelmed candidate.
Like in New York City, what makes this system effective is the trigger funds provided by Arizona when a participating candidate's opponent spends beyond a certain allowed amount.
"Trigger funds" are additional public funds that are given to publicly financed candidates who face large expenditures by opposing privately-financed candidates and by outside groups.
Trigger funds are a key safeguard against this type of brazen manipulation of the system, because they prevent all but those with Bloomberg bucks from overwhelming the political process with money.
The decision today comes one day after the Supreme Court in Arizona Free Enterprise v. Bennett struck down a provision of the Arizona public financing law that provided "trigger funds" for publicly financed candidates.
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The case, McComish v. Bennett, involves a challenge to Arizona's public financing system, specifically a provision granting "trigger funding" to participating candidates facing well-funded opponents.
The declaration, made by the WHO director Margaret Chan, will trigger funding for research to try to establish whether the Zika virus, spread by mosquitoes, is responsible for the large numbers of babies born with abnormally small heads in Brazil.
This ascending match bonus, a form of "trigger funding," is crucial to the CFB system, as it deters wealthy candidates from trying to overwhelm their opponents financially, because the more money a rich candidate spends over the limit, the more his or her opponents receive in matching funds from the CFB.
They say that the prospect of matching funds for opponents deterred them from exercising their right: the fear of triggering funds led them to delay or refrain from raising and spending money and so to censor themselves.
"We have a timeline in place that if we get a decision quickly, that triggers funding and we're good to go," he said.
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