Posted on 08/22/2009 1:11:10 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
The Republican National Committee is asking a federal court to restore the ability of national parties to raise unlimited amounts of money and to spend it to help elect state-level candidates.
The case focuses on hotly contested governor’s races in New Jersey and Virginia. The 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign financing law (PL 107-155) does not allow national parties to give money directly to state candidates. The RNC wants to change that so it can expressly back the party nominee for governor, advertise and send out mailings on behalf of state or local Republican candidates and make get-out-the-vote calls.
The law also bans the parties from taking unlimited big-dollar contributions from corporations, unions and wealthy donors — a type of donation known as “soft money” — and the RNC wants to reverse that as well.
The case will be heard Aug. 27 by a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and the ruling could be appealed straight to the Supreme Court. An RNC victory would deal a major blow to the landmark campaign finance law named for Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, and open the door to a more prominent role for the national parties in state-level races.
(Excerpt) Read more at cqpolitics.com ...
Thanks, Juan. After you make all of the Mexicans into “Americans”, maybe you can sponsor a bill making it ILLEGAL to vote for conservatives!!
What’s ironic was that McCain’s own pet campaign finance law hindered his ability to raise money for his Presidential bid.
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True campaign finance reform: On your taxes give $1 to the National Debt.
S*REW THE POLITICIANS!
That maniac McCain has caused more damage to this nation than any foreign enemy ever has, allowing marxists to rig the electoral process in their favor and handicapping conservatives in their fight to stop them via his unconstutional legislation and then failing to run an effective campaing against a Marxist crypto-muslim dedicated to destroying America
He ought to be locked back up in a tiger cage and he can take his fat dumb blonde daughter with him
Hey McTraitor: RETIRE! He’s another Benedict Arlen Specter.
Very true. And the GOP can no longer afford to be hamstrung after the blatant campaing fraud that Obama pulled off that was never investigated.
When his 2008 campaign rolled around, it was totally forgotten.
McCain, you dope.
Was he a dope or was he a very willing participant?
It’s about effin time!!!!!
This bill should never have become law in the first place, and should have been to court before the ink was dry.
They could have simply voted no on the legislation in the first place.
Something that has always baffled me about McCain-Feingold is that it limited corporations, wealthy, and others from making big money contributions ... but then how did Obama amass some $800 million for his POTUS run, and who were the donors? Certainly $800 mil didn't come from the grassroots .. who did it come from?
I've never seen any satisfying answer to that question, as if the question was ever even asked
Well, McCain will live in infamy as long as this law stays on the books. But you have to fault the weak-spined Republicans for giving in to pressure and voting for it.
And you have to fault Bush for signing it, explaining that he knew the Supreme Court would strike it down because it is unconstitutional.
Well, yes, it’s unconstitutional. But SCOTUS doesn’t worry too much about that these days. And Obama will make it worse as soon as he can—also with Republican help, no doubt.
Obama declined government financing, so it didn’t apply to him. He had no obligation to report anything after the election. And now, of course, he owns the Justice Department, so never mind that he got a ton of illegal money and foreign money.
See, again .. this is not a satisfactory answer .. (not your answer Cicero, but the CFR law itself) .. how can there be two sets of rules for campaigning? One which hogties a candidate who accepts public $$$, and another which doesn't?
If this is the double-standard which CFR was based on, then it was highly flawed legislation from the get-go ... (but we already knew that, of course)
Hope the GOP can bury this abomination once and for all, as well as kick Mr McCain in the a$$ once or twice for good measure
Individual candidates and Club for Growth only, thank ya very much.
Here’s what I don’t get. Why can a candidate spend as much of his own money as he wants on his campaign, but I can only donate a limited amount to his opponent?
Or am I mistaken and we are both limited (therefore causing the candidate to use the old loan-the-campaign-money-that-will-never-be-repaid trick)?
A dope -- for the love of John McCain.
I really don't enough confidence in McCain's intelligence to believe he could be slick enough to pull this off with such cunning. It was all about stroking his immense ego, which the Dems, the media and Pew knew exactly how to do.
This reminded me, though, that McCain's health care reforms pretty much mirrored what the Congressional Republicans are proposing -- buying insurance across state lines, etc. The problem was, he didn't understand it, couldn't explain it, and never bothered to figure out exactly what it was that the Dems were offering (hint, hint -- single payer, John -- over here!).
Not one person, unless I missed it, on this thread praised Michael Steele, RNC Chair for taking this to Court. We have had quite a few Chairs since this went into effect and this is the first one with a backbone to take it to Court.
I applaud Michael Steele for standing up to McCain/Feingold!
“Was he a dope or was he a very willing participant?”
Do you mean “dupe,” as opposed to “dope”? To be duped is to be tricked, whereas a dope is just an idiot.
Woohoo! Great news.
The latter explains so much more than the former.
The RNC should sue McCain for fraudulent misrepresentation, monetary damages and demand their 2008 campaign money be refunded.
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