Open letter to the FEC

An open letter to the Federal Election Commission: Please reform your rules so that it is no longer necessary for someone wanting to be a candidate to have to spend or receive more than $5000 in order to be declared a candidate. And before you try and exploit a loophole, I also will say make it much much less expensive, or better yet remove money from the equation, since that's a big problem in the political system today. By removing the requisite money, many more people could run for public office, and not those in the service of political kingmakers and corporate backers, but ordinary people, nonfamous people, or people who can offer more ideas to voters without trappings of the current system. The choice is yours, but I'm telling you to reform that rule.