Transparency and disclosure is the answer, not contribution limits (Davidson).
Gordon Gee - This is the nastiest campaign because of the amounts of money given... have we ever talked about public financing?
Davidson: There has been talk about this, but I do not see the move in this direction.

Transparency is the key -- it is not a big deal to let someone contribute half a million or a million if they disclose...

Was there anything that came out of the election that was a surprise to you? Dr. Gee, you were mentioning the tone and tenor...
--- we were used to distortions but the massive outright lies that we saw on every side - it is cancerous - if we don't find a bi-partisan way to deal with this. How do you allow free speech but exact a true, real penalty that will serve as a deterrent for this? The elections commission is impotent - it is a tool for people to go to to make a complaint.

Gee: We are in a dangerous time, the world is very competitive, the Indians and Chinese are aghast at our lack of policy conversations and the lack of respect here... we develop policy by outflanking and outyelling at each other - how do we develop a much more civil tone, which then contributes to the solution? Right now it is all about trashing...

Davidson: Term limits have contributed to this lack of working across the aisle...