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A Florida group is joining a national effort to take corruption out of politics by limiting how much money candidates can receive from one donor and where they can get those funds.

Progress Florida is heading up the Florida efforts for the Fair Elections legislation. They are launching this TV spot in Washington D.C. and Tallahassee in an attempt to convince Florida Congressman Allen Boyd to become a co-sponsor of the legislation. Progress Florida Political Director Damien Filer says taking big money out of the game will make lawmakers more accountable to their constituents.

“This changes our system so that instead of candidates for congressional office relying on major donations from huge corporations, like BP and Goldman Sachs for example, they can rely more on small dollar donations from their constituents,” said Filer.

Several recent polls show as many as 80 percent of Americans don’t trust their government and think Congress is corrupted by the big corporations that donate to their campaigns.