[Mo1]

FYI Ping

[muawiyah]

Why am I not surprised to find Pelosi and her gang initially proposing to impose fascist discipline over the entirity of society.

These people are as bad as I thought they were. Time to get prepared, Fur Shur.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Would a web site like this be considered "grass-roots lobbying" if people ON the site (users) post stuff to tell people to call their representatives?

[Obie Wan]

Can you feel the noose tightening ???

[GitmoSailor]

Thanks for your post.

[EGPWS]

House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) has pledged to take up a lobbying reform proposal that would impose new regulations on speech by grassroots organizations, while providing a loophole in the rules for large corporations and labor unions.

A box of rocks can be narrow minded also apparently.

Pardon my candor for many of my close associates are agates and I don't mean to offend the fools and their idiotic liberal democrat leanings.

[outofstyle]

Why do "lawmakers" feel like they must constantly make laws? It goes on and on, endlessly. I wish we could elect people who would start to dismantle a few laws and get the government to back off.

[proud_yank]

Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) has pledged to take up a lobbying reform proposal that would impose new regulations on speech by grassroots organizations, while providing a loophole in the rules for large corporations and labor unions.

B-b-but I thought it was us eeevil conservatives that we're the puppets of big eeevil corporations, and loved oppressing everyone?

[rjp2005]

This really pisses me off to speak bluntly. The average voter has almost no say nor the time to follow all the issues, so we rely on many grassroots groups to keep us informed and remind us when major issues are hitting the floor. I'm sorry, but it's none of the House's business how we are meeting and who we are contacting.

This anti-lobbying BS is ridiculous. As if lobbying is evil or unconstitutional. Forget more laws - if leftists stink as lobbyists, that's they're fault not ours.

[You Dirty Rats]

I wouldn't be surprised if John McCain decides to sponsor this in the Senate.

I hate San Francisco Nazis.

[EBH]

They want to shut us up. They think they have the ability to take away the very Rights, the very Right, the Founding Father's intended us to have, keep, and hold sacred.

[MaxMax]

The democrat' have the MSM to spout their agenda.
By shutting down the republicans they are in effect turning
back the clock when they (MSM) controled the election propaganda. /imo

And here we go.

[GitmoSailor]

I didn't give up!!!!! It just took me a long time to start over!!!...I'am here!!!

[traviskicks]

"The legislation would make changes to the legal definition of “grassroots lobbying” and require any organization that encourages 500 or more members of the general public to contact their elected representatives to file a report with detailed information about their organization to the government on a quarterly basis."





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[Sam Hill]

The Oh So Ethical Nancy Pelosi Is Fined For PAC Violations

If there is one thing Nancy Pelosi should be an expert on, besides the hazards of excessive plastic surgery, it should be ethics.

For lest we forget, she was fined $21,000 by the Federal Election Commission, just a little over two years ago:

For Immediate Release
March 26, 2004

AFFILIATED LEADERSHIP PACS FINED

WASHINGTON — The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has resolved a number of allegations concerning contributions made and received by two affiliated committees, PAC to the Future and Team Majority, leadership PACs that are associated with Representative Nancy Pelosi (D - CA). The FEC has entered into conciliation agreements with PAC to the Future and Team Majority, and three campaigns that were recipients of excessive contributions.

The conciliation agreements resulted in total civil penalties of $28,000. PAC to the Future and Team Majority will pay $21,000, Julie Thomas for Congress Campaign Committee (D - IA) and Van Hollen for Congress (D - MD) will each pay $2,500, and Joe Turnham for Congress (D - AL) will pay $2,000. The three campaigns have also agreed to disgorge $5,000 each to the U.S. Treasury.

The Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) states that committees that are established, financed, maintained, or controlled by the same person or group of persons are "affiliated committees." Contributions made to or by such committees shall be considered to have been made to or by a single committee. Under the FECA, a multicandidate PAC is limited to receiving $5,000 per calendar year from individual contributors. Further, a candidate may only accept $5,000 per election from a multicandidate PAC. If a committee accepts contributions that exceed these limits, its treasurer must either refund the excessive contributions or seek redesignation to another election or reattribution to another donor within sixty days.

According to the conciliation agreement with PAC to the Future and Team Majority, the PACs failed to identify themselves as affiliated with each other when they registered with the FEC, and both PACs made contributions to several candidates for the 2002 General Election, which, when aggregated, exceeded their shared $5,000 contribution limit . The PACs also received contributions from individuals that exceeded their shared $5,000 contribution limit and did not refund the excessive portion of contributions within 60 days.

The investigation stemmed from a complaint filed by Kenneth F. Boehm, Chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center.

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

If President Bush signs this into law, its hasta la vista to the Republican party.

[xzins]

Sadly, with the house in control of the dems, this will pass the house. In fact, CFR passed the House in 2002 with a House Republican majority.

The Senate should filibuster this new bill, but there is no reason to hope. McCain's CFR passed 60/40 in 2002. That Senate nearly resembles this one. McCain should support it given his CFR record.

But.....Maybe not; it gives him a chance to oppose something similar to his CFR of 2002. This could be the dems giving him a chance to be the Pubbie candidate in 2008. That way the libs can't lose.

A dem lib or a pubblie lib no matter which way the vote goes. Liberaldom will be happy despite the candidate. And during the campaign, they know they can pound him with the Keating Five corruption charges that he's never answered for.

This could be the "McCain Rehabilitation Act of 2007."

[kerryusama04]

Hugo Chavez must be proud.

[crazyhorse691]

The new Rat critters ain't even been sworn in yet, but, they already have use swearing. Anybody here surprised by the Rats efforts to silence the opposition??? Wait, I think I see some hands coming up from those who sat out the election to teach the Republicans a lesson.

[jmax]

You can bet your ass that moveon.org will be exempt.