“State Majority wants you to finance the campaigns of public officials, even those you don’t support,” said Brabenec. “I am strongly against public campaign financing because it violates taxpayers’ ability to choose who they want to support. A taxpayer burden upward of $100 million is not our best allocation of money with a pre-coronavirus budget deficit of $7 billion. Here’s a newsflash: the state should not be a robber baron to its residents!”