In a new Policy Report, Daren Bakst targets taxpayer-funded judicial campaigns as an example of how government shouldn’t be involved with the funding of campaigns.  After distributing his report to the House Campaign Finance/Reporting and Elections Laws Subcommittee of the House Select Committee on Ethics and Governmental Reform, Daren gave a brief overview of his findings, and his recommendation for action. The committee then added his findings to their public information website (items 15 and 16). In his opinion, thanks to the current practice of funding judicial campaigns from General Fund monies (a practice originally forbade by legislation), the system is a failure. Meanwhile, John Hood fielded questions for the media on many of the campaign races across the state.  He spoke with the Greensboro News & Record about John Ross Hendrix, Vernon Robinson and Charlie Sutherland, vs. Brad Miller in the state’s 13th U.S. House District; the open race for state House District 116 in the Asheville Citizen-Times; US House Rep. Charles Taylor’s re-election concerns, and the twisted power of Speaker Jim Black. John also had something to say about campaign reform in the Charlotte Observer and on News 14 Carolina’s “Political Connections.”