The point of not allowing big money into campaigns is to prevent people from being corrupted by the influence of others. You're not going to be corrupted by your own influence. If you can't have at least $5,000 to launch a leadership campaign, then it's going to be very difficult to do even the basic things—the long-distance calls, the basic mailings—to get started. It actually would wind up handicapping people who are not already an inside candidate, so I think it just opens up the gates a little more freely.
On May 1st, 2014. See this statement in context.