Democrats' hard-money blues

Washington Times ^ | Wednesday, September 3, 2003 | House Editorial

[JohnHuang2]

Less than two weeks before the Supreme Court hears arguments on Sept. 8 regarding the constitutionality of the provisions of last year's campaign-finance-reform legislation, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) issued its summary of January-June hard-money contributions to federally registered political-party committees. That six-month period represents the first official fundraising tally since national political parties were banned from raising soft money by the McCain-Feingold bill.

[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, September 3, 2003

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[farmfriend]

So money really is speach because Republicans are putting their money where their mouths are.

[azcap]

What is the GOP spending so much money on right now? Sending me those little plastic "Membership Cards" ???

[capt. norm]

The Democrats pushed hard for campaign finance reform because they wanted to be seen as being in favor of it for campaigning purposes.

They thought they could make a big stink about it because they were dead sure that the Republicans would never let it pass. That way they could also use it to demonize the Republicans.

Turns out that they were wrong, twice, and they are now stuck with something they only pretended to want.

[Steely Tom]

...one virtually certain consequence of the bill would be to widen the hard-money advantages already enjoyed by the Republican Party.

It would be interesting to know how John McCain feels about this.

(steely)