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To: donna

Get the law changed if you believe that. There’s a process to getting that done.


5 posted on 02/01/2016 11:13:33 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

...Thomas Jefferson and John Adams...Campaigning, however, was considered undignified. Candidates stood for office and individuals wrote tracts in newspapers to either support or denounce them.

In the early nineteenth century, the spoils system was instituted,..Government employees were then taxed an “assessment” to fund the political campaigns...

The first successful campaign finance regulation was passed in 1867. Written into that year’s naval appropriations bill, the regulation prohibited military officers and government employees from demanding money from naval yard workers...

In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt asked Congress to ban all corporate contributions...

In 1971, however, Congress passed the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), which established regulations for federal primary races and general elections. These regulations included limits to individual contributions and increased public disclosure of campaign receipts...

...amended FECA in 1974, severely limiting the amount individuals could contribute to federal candidates and placing spending limits on federal elections...

In 1976, the United States Supreme Court struck down sections of the FECA in Buckley v. Valeo, finding that Congress could not limit the amount of money candidates spend on their own campaigns..,

During the 1980s and 1990s, PACs became increasingly important,.. PACs created a political environment in which corporate donors were given more power than individual voters.

McCain-Feingold bill, in 2002 ..etc...etc
http://connection.ebscohost.com/politics/campaign-finance-reform/history-campaign-finance-laws


7 posted on 02/01/2016 11:38:44 AM PST by donna (Radicalized Christians become missionaries; then, they tell everyone that Jesus loves them!)
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