This bill is probably more end run around the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United. It is their signature issue. It is all about money in politics and their evil desire to eliminate to the maximum extent possible money and politics for everyone BUT themselves. This also extends down to State politics, watch for it.
Bills bills bills to limit what those in politics have been doing for eons, so let’s just limit what they have been doing by making it against the law. SCOTUS said basically when you limit money you limit free speech and for dems free speech is a problem. How can you win elections when your opponents have free speech and money and your platform stinks?
Watch for those endless end runs around a SCOTUS decision they really don’t like and so refuse to accept it. Kind of like the last Presidential election. In some ways they be like Republicans, only more organized and certainly more united.
Thanks for that info. I wish I had recorded the hearing and the man being questioned. He was from some kind of Free Speech organization. Basically,from what I could gather from Cong. Jordan’s questions, this bill makes it a crime to even speak against a candidate.....basically. I think that’s what the ACLU is objecting to....it is a hammer on free speech. When I heard it my first reaction was that most all of what we read here on FR would be banned. Though I think the legislation (draconian) is aimed at the political action committees mostly.
Again, I am going to keep trying to find a copy of that hearing. It was very alarming to say the least.
Yes (bills that are end runs around Supreme Court Decisions they don’t like).
It is good that this won’t reach the floor in the senate.
What is BAD is that dem’s bills are getting more frequently and more BLATANTLY dictatorial.
There WILL be a day when there’s a dem controlled congress and presidency, even if it’s 20 year from now.
What then?
I hate where all of this is heading but it is heading there.