William P. Kreml, presidential candidate in the South Carolina Democratic Presidential Primary spoke at the Strom Thurmond Institute on Tuesday, January 18, 2000. The title of his discussion is "REAL Campaign Finance Reform: A Candidate with a Different Approach." Dr. Kreml is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of South Carolina.

Bill Kreml believes that the contemporary American Political system is ailing, and in need of major overhaul. He is publicly defying the Federal Election Commission by refusing to disclose required information on FEC financial contribution forms. His campaign platform is aimed at educating the public on the dangers of "undemocratic decentralization" a term he uses to describe a condition wherein the general public is basically stripped of political power. He says government is becoming a governing body of a few powerful interests, rather than a representative democracy. Professor Kreml has been concerned with the fragmentation of America's political institutions since the early 1970's.

William Kreml is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of South Carolina. A graduate of Northwestern University, Northwestern University Law School, and Indiana University, where he received his Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor Kreml has been concerned with the fragmentation of America's political theory and American government. Kreml is listed in The Philosopher's Index. In his recent America's Middle Class: from Subsidy to Abandonment, he wrote of the decline of America's middle class. Kreml believes the campaign finance scandal is but the latest manifestation of excessive political decentralization in America's institutions, with exclusive back door influence into our government's decision making prostituting America's representative democracy.