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GOP Blocks Bill to Disclose Campaign Ad Donors
CBS News ^ | 9/23/10 | Staff

Posted on 09/23/2010 1:59:12 PM PDT by Bokababe

Senate Republicans on Thursday stood fast in blocking legislation requiring special interest groups running campaign ads to identify their donors.....The 59-39 vote fell one short of the 60 needed to advance the legislation. Two Republicans didn't vote. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: campaignads; democrats; disclose; discloseact; disclosure; elections; fail; obama; palin
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Whew! A close one!
1 posted on 09/23/2010 1:59:17 PM PDT by Bokababe
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To: Bokababe

Could it be, could it be .... spines beginning to emerge?


2 posted on 09/23/2010 2:01:11 PM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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To: Bokababe
The editors at CBS are masters of the dishonest headline.
3 posted on 09/23/2010 2:01:46 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The RINOcrat Party is still in charge. There has never been a conservative American government.)
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To: Bokababe

It’s a LIE....the cBS headline.....THIS was about BLOCKING free speech, except for the DEM union buddies!


4 posted on 09/23/2010 2:02:02 PM PDT by goodnesswins (There are Indian Reservations in the US LARGER than Israel. Leave Israel alone!)
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To: Bokababe

Who were the two Repub cowards?


5 posted on 09/23/2010 2:02:17 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: Bokababe

Was this the Gouse DISCLOSE bill? Excellent work.

The “sponsor disclosure for ads” portion was a very small part of this hugely obnoxious assault on the 1st Amendment.


6 posted on 09/23/2010 2:03:48 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Islam is a violent and tyrannical political ideology and has nothing to do with "religion".)
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To: pabianice

That’s what I wondered, too. It didn’t say. I suppose Lisa Murkowski was probably one of them.


7 posted on 09/23/2010 2:03:56 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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To: pabianice
Murky probably agreed to vote present as long as they didn't bump toss her out of her leadership seat.
8 posted on 09/23/2010 2:04:27 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
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To: Bokababe

The election hasn’t even occurred yet and the Dems have started losing.


9 posted on 09/23/2010 2:04:27 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: Bokababe

YeeeeHawwww

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution lives, for at least another day.


10 posted on 09/23/2010 2:05:07 PM PDT by LowTaxesEqualProsperity
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To: Bokababe
Only GOP campaign donors.

DemocRAT campaign donors get to remain anonymous.

11 posted on 09/23/2010 2:06:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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To: Cicero

I would have guessed the two liberal RINOs from Maine.


12 posted on 09/23/2010 2:06:31 PM PDT by TommyDale (Independent - I already left the GOP because they were too liberal)
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To: TommyDale

Whatever Republicans voted for this rape of the First Amendment need to be removed ASAP.


13 posted on 09/23/2010 2:09:05 PM PDT by LowTaxesEqualProsperity
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To: goodnesswins
It’s a LIE....the cBS headline.....THIS was about BLOCKING free speech, except for the DEM union buddies!

Agreed, but I posted it because it was one of the first news stories to appear about the vote.

14 posted on 09/23/2010 2:09:14 PM PDT by Bokababe (Save Christian Kosovo! http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Yes, it was the DISCLOSE Act.


15 posted on 09/23/2010 2:10:21 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (In 2012: The Rookie and The Wookie get booted from the White House.)
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To: Bokababe

Obama Says Donor Records “pretty hard to process”

Charlie Gibson of ABC just interviewed Obama and asked him why he won’t disclose his donor list. Obama proceeds to dissemble by claiming that the donor list would be too difficult to process and that the campaign is technically following the letter of the law, never mind the spirit of it:

GIBSON: You’re going to have a half an hour broadcast tonight on a number of the networks. And the expense is not inconsiderable to buy that much time.

OBAMA: Right.

GIBSON: Aren’t you able to buy it only because you broke a promise on campaign financing?

OBAMA: Well, look, there is no doubt that the amount of money that we’ve raised in this campaign has been extraordinary and surprised me as much as anybody — maybe more than anybody. What I would simply point to is that the way we have raised this money has been by expanding the pool of small donors in this country in an unprecedented way.

GIBSON: But you haven’t released their names.

OBAMA: We’ve got…

GIBSON: We don’t know who they are.

OBAMA: Well, look, the — a whole bunch of them were out here today. I mean, you’re looking the people who are giving 5, 10, $25. Ordinary folks who have gotten impassioned about this campaign in a way that is unprecedented. And that, really, is…

GIBSON: Shouldn’t we know the names of that list?

OBAMA: Look, you know, 3.1 million donors would be a pretty hard thing for us to be able to process. And we have done everything that’s been asked of us under the FEC guidelines. These are small donors. They’re ordinary folks. And the idea behind all campaign finance reform is to make sure that the public official is not bought and sold; that that public official is accountable to the public, that they are not subject to undue influence by big special interests in Washington and lobbyists…

Raising money from small donors in an unprecedented way? That’s an understatement.

http://obamashrugged.com/?p=153


16 posted on 09/23/2010 2:10:26 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: I cannot think of a name

Either that or it could be because it’s an election year. Nevertheless, the First Amendment has been protected, for now.


17 posted on 09/23/2010 2:11:13 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (In 2012: The Rookie and The Wookie get booted from the White House.)
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To: God luvs America; All

forgot the best...

“And we don’t take lobbyists’ money. We don’t take money from PACs. And there’s no industry, there’s no group out there that I owe favors to as a consequence of this campaign. In fact, I would argue that probably — should I be successful, I may come into the White House with fewer strings attached to me than just about any presidential candidate in history. I wasn’t even supported by the establishment in the Democratic Party when I started this race.

So I don’t have a lot of — a lot of chits out there that are going to be collected.”


18 posted on 09/23/2010 2:13:25 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: Bokababe

Wonder, joy and glory!!!! Our guys are regrowing their BALLS!!! Thank God for the Tea Party.


19 posted on 09/23/2010 2:16:36 PM PDT by libstripper
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a Miracle, a Miracle has happened! First the DREAM Act, now the DISCLOSE Act, have gone down in flames. And I just got a snooty return letter from Ron Wyden telling me why I was wrong and he was right in supporting the bill. Oh, I am so glad it failed. We will take any victories at this point in our civilizational demise.


20 posted on 09/23/2010 2:20:47 PM PDT by NOBO2
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