The important part is learning a lesson from it.

If a corrupt candidate is in a Dem primary, they’re like to raise an insane amount of money and be able to beat candidates that are more popular with Dem voters and more likely to win a general.

And that if we’re going to do public matching, it’s just exacerbates that divide and is the opposite of leveling the playing field.

Mayor-elect Eric Adams’ victory came with a hefty price tag. Over the course of the campaign, he raised just over $19.1 million, more than half of which was in public matching funds, and spent about $18.1 million, according to the latest financial disclosures. He also benefited from nearly $8.2 million in independent expenditures in his favor, with little outside spending to oppose him.

https://www.gothamgazette.com/city/10940-eric-adams-18-million-dollar-campaign-spending-2021-election

Technically he hasnt been convicted over that 2021 election tho , so:

Allegedly if Adams took bribes, the taxpayer got stuck matching the bribes.

So say 5 millione was bribes, that’s also 5 million in taxpayer money to further elevate the corrupt candidate

At this point why not just make primaries “house money”? Give every candidate with X amount of signatures before Y date, $Z amount of money. And that’s all they can spend.

DNC used to Blacklist anyone that worked to challenge an incumbent, so we can blacklist anyone that works for a PAC that doesn’t stay out of a primary.

Top to bottom, make it a career ending like they were doing to staffers who worked a campaign against a Dem incumbent.

Stop acting like each one of these “moderates” are the exception, they just do t always have to face consequences so we never see them sweat.