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To: Sabertooth
Information will be restricted, that's the point. I've used the word "restricted."

OK .. my bad

Now .. do you really think they won't be able to make their point in future ads??

763 posted on 12/10/2003 9:58:20 AM PST by Mo1 (House Work, If you do it right , will kill you!)
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To: Mo1
Now .. do you really think they won't be able to make their point in future ads??

At certain points in the campaign, yes. That's one of today's rulings.

It already happens with the Federa Matching Fund scam. If you accept matching funds, you run into problems if you need to make a push in this or that state late in the primary campaign. Or, once that stage is over, if you need to get your message out during the summer. That's why Bush decided not to accept the funds: because he didn't want the restrictions.

Dean is doing the same thing this year.

One major effect of these spending restrictions is that they protect incumbents and frontrunners, to the disadvantage of challengers.

Why should that be? What good is served?

And yet, in exchange, we get restrictions on our free political speech.


815 posted on 12/10/2003 10:16:26 AM PST by Sabertooth (Credit where it's due: saveourlicense.com prevented SB60, and the Illegal Alien CDLs... for now.)
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