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Posted on 02/11/2002 8:23:37 AM PST by rwfromkansas
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Contacted all four New York congresscritters and, frankly, am shocked to see my rep. Sue Kelly on this list. Plan to change the wording someone and fax to the rest. BUMP.
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posted on
02/11/2002 9:48:10 AM PST
by
StarFan
To: dittomom
LOL!!! I'm on that mailing list, too!! Comes in handy, n'est ce pas ???
To: Clinton's a liar
Does Keyes have plans to talk about this on his show? Is there going to be an e-mail alert sent to his e-mail list? I thought I would ask. God bless!
To: rwfromkansas
I am going to call J.C. Watts and see if he is going to put out an e-mail to his list members also since I have not received anything yet and I am on his list.
To: rwfromkansas
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To: Sidebar Moderator
Can you keep this thread at the top of Breaking News until the House votes on CFR? I believe that this is a very important free-speech issue and should have maximum attention.
To: MeeknMing
Ping it! :-)
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02/11/2002 10:06:36 AM PST
by
PeteF
To: Republican Wildcat
That tripe would only make sense to someone who is an enemy of freedom and viewed it as good propaganda to pull the wool over the eyes of the public. You aren't fooling anyone here with your baloney, and won't anytime soon.What freedom are you talking about? Freedom of speech? It seems to me, IMHO, that the only folks who benefit from unregulated campaign cash are candidates and the RICH individuals and organizations who can afford to place issue ads....i.e. Wiley Brothers, NAACP. Free speech was meant by the Founding Fathers to be just that: "free". Just try to get your issue ad in the media if you have no money, LOL...you'll find the price higher than a night in the Lincoln bedroom during the Clinton Administration. Wealth is not speech! Wealth, pure and simple, is money!
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posted on
02/11/2002 10:10:54 AM PST
by
meandog
To: meandog
Freedom of speech is not free.
To: rwfromkansas
Shays/Meehan exempts News Media, how is that for fairness?
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02/11/2002 10:21:39 AM PST
by
Burlem
To: Quicksilver
The bottom line is if soft money is really evil, ban all soft money and raise the hard money limit and mandate full disclosure. Simple.I guess this means you support the government being able to limit the money at all. Government involvement in regulating campaigns must be a new Republican/conservative tenet.
To: rwfromkansas
We can not count on a veto from President Bush. He is under lots of pressure from the media and may allow pretty much any bill to pass, quietly working to get Republicans to challenge it in the courtsWhat a sad commentary that the supposedly conservative President cannot be relied upon to veto a bill that repeals the first amendment. Too much media pressure. A President who either has no principles or values his political popularity more than he values them. "He may allow pretty much any bill to pass."
Pretty frightening stuff coming from his supporters.
To: ThomasJefferson
I would support no limits, so long as there is full disclosure within a few days of receipt.
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To: ThomasJefferson
I would not at all be surprised if President Bush vetoed a CFR bill that did not meet his stated criteria. He basically told congress don't look to me for political cover, IOW, don't vote for a CFR bill so you can say that you voted for it BS.
To: dittomom; rwfromkansas; Sir Gawain; Rodney King; dead; Rebelbase; Reagan Man; PeteF; Dog Gone...
Congresswoman Shelly Moore Capito [(R-WV) - (202) 225-2711 - (202) 225-7856 fax ] has her own amendment to the Shays-Meehan bill. She wants some type of political party matching funds for candidates who spend over $100,000 of their own money on their own campaign. Her opponent in 2000, Jim Humphreys (and possible opponent again this year), spent $6 MILLION of his own money on his loosing campaign. This forced Shelley Capito to seek campaign contributions from wherever she could get them to
Just like when we dig into it far enough we'll find creative avoidance of the IRS tax codes behind alot of the Enron mess, millionaire candidates pushing Congress towards a plutocracy are behind alot of the Campaign Finance mess. There was a 'millionaire candidate' amendment which got shot down from the last CFR proposal.
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posted on
02/11/2002 10:46:01 AM PST
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RFP
To: rwfromkansas
Freepers take action I'd like to but RINO Greenwood is my representative to Congress.
But, in a timely coincidence, last night as I was researching his record for the upcoming primary challenge I came across the NRLC scorecard. Scroll on down to vote 18 for more information.
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02/11/2002 10:47:49 AM PST
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ohmage
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