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Because he wasn't the first: http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/16/us/bush-forgoes-federal-funds-and-has-no-spending-limit.html http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/16/us

• nickysielicki 9y ago
  That's just talking about funding for primaries, and Bush wasn't the first in that regard. Barack Obama was the first candidate to reject public funding for the general election, and the spending limits that come with it, since the program was introduced in 1976. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance_in_the_United_States#Public_financing_of_presidential_campaigns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance_in_the_United...