There are still too many people here on Free Republic who don’t know about the aftermath of the full implementation of the Fairness Doctrine and the creation and passing of legislation which will give illegal immigrants the legal right to vote in all future U.S. elections. The upcoming “mess” that’s truly coming to this country will be enormous!
We'll get that also with Hillary or Obama. An emboldened conservative presence in Congress can stop an Amnesty push by a President McCain. Bush also was ready to sign Amnesty, but failed. We have to strengthen conservatives in all local/state and Congressional elections, while voting for McCain just to prevent Hillobama. Too much is at stake!
You just described McCain-Feingold and McCain-Kennedy.
http://www.news.com/The-coming-crackdown-on-blogging/2008-1028_3-5597079.html
Bradley Smith says that the freewheeling days of political blogging and online punditry are over.
In just a few months, he warns, bloggers and news organizations could risk the wrath of the federal government if they improperly link to a campaign’s Web site. Even forwarding a political candidate’s press release to a mailing list, depending on the details, could be punished by fines.
Smith should know. He’s one of the six commissioners at the Federal Election Commission, which is beginning the perilous process of extending a controversial 2002 campaign finance law to the Internet.
In 2002, the FEC exempted the Internet by a 4-2 vote, but U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly last fall overturned that decision. “The commission’s exclusion of Internet communications from the coordinated communications regulation severely undermines” the campaign finance law’s purposes, Kollar-Kotelly wrote.
Smith and the other two Republican commissioners wanted to appeal the Internet-related sections. But because they couldn’t get the three Democrats to go along with them, what Smith describes as a “bizarre” regulatory process now is under way.
CNET News.com spoke with Smith about the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, better known as the McCain-Feingold law, and its forthcoming extrusion onto the Internet.