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FEC Rejects Limits on 'Soft Money' Groups
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| 5/13/04
| Sharon Theimer - AP
Posted on 05/13/2004 12:16:14 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
A government that will not enforce it's own laws is on it's way to being no government at all.
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posted on
05/13/2004 7:27:05 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: NormsRevenge
What exactly is the differnce between this and a pac?
Was that entire legal excise in CFR wasted money down the sh_thole?
42
posted on
05/13/2004 8:21:35 PM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired Army and Proud of It!)
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
So CFR is only a limitation on the political parties, unions, and the NRA, but the 527's get a pass? The NRA has a big 527. This is good news all around. It doesn't change the 60 day pre election ad ban, but it frees all these groups - including the NRA - up to do lots of stuff.
To: Rensselaer
So the only bad news is that, for 60 days before the election, the country is subjected to the unbiased reporting from ABS, CBS, NBS, etc. (Bush bad, Bush bad, Bush bad, etc.)? That is bad enough for me.
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posted on
05/13/2004 9:09:49 PM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Any day you wake up is a good day.)
To: NormsRevenge; All
From the GrooveYard of Forgotten Bump Lists:
Silence, America!:
45
posted on
05/14/2004 1:05:56 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(--30--)
To: Redbob
'NYSE'........but at 2500
/sarcasm
46
posted on
05/14/2004 4:04:28 AM PDT
by
maestro
To: NormsRevenge
But CFR was supposed to prevent this!
47
posted on
05/14/2004 7:38:50 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
So the only bad news is that, for 60 days before the election, the country is subjected to the unbiased reporting from ABS, CBS, NBS, etc. (Bush bad, Bush bad, Bush bad, etc.)? That is bad enough for me.Well, we couldn't have stopped that without repealing the First Amendment. The more other voices there are in that period, the better.
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posted on
05/14/2004 7:47:02 AM PDT
by
Know your rights
(The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
To: xzins
Was that entire legal excise in CFR wasted money down the sh_thole?Was there ever a doubt? The War On Speech, like the War On Poverty and the War On Drugs, is doomed to fail.
49
posted on
05/14/2004 7:48:20 AM PDT
by
Know your rights
(The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
To: Redbob
Two big things here are that there is NO limit on dollar amounts of contributions, NOR any limit on corporate contributions to the "soft money" groups. Not only that, but doesn't this ruling allow the unfettered access of foreign interests into campaigning for the candidate of their choice? Time to make a 'courtesy call' to the Democrats' Red Chinese Sugar Daddies!
50
posted on
05/15/2004 2:23:02 PM PDT
by
atomicpossum
(Hey, I wouldn't touch Camryn Manheim's uterus on a bet.)
To: expatpat
I thought foreign contributions were against the law? What we should have is NO FOREIGN $, NO limits and TOTAL transparency. Donations should be reported within 72 hours max - actually I think Dubya did it in 24 hours last time. Should be listed on the campaign or party website within that time.
Keep it real simple.
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posted on
05/17/2004 5:10:54 PM PDT
by
Let's Roll
(Kerry is a self-confessed unindicted war criminal or ... a traitor to his country in a time of war)
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
"What could GW have been thinking when he signed this blatantly unconstitutional monstrosity?"
He is dangerously naive. New tone, islam is religion of peace, Iraq wants democracy, doesn't see humiliation of terrorists as brilliant or says he doesn't etc.
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posted on
05/17/2004 5:15:51 PM PDT
by
Let's Roll
(Kerry is a self-confessed unindicted war criminal or ... a traitor to his country in a time of war)
To: Let's Roll; expatpat
Foreign contributions are against the law, and this ruling does not change that.
To: Rensselaer
Tell me that when Klinton and Kerry are indicted for taking contributions from the Red Chinese military.
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posted on
05/17/2004 6:47:17 PM PDT
by
expatpat
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