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To: El Gato
ANY ad can be run at ANY time with ANY content as long as it is funded with hard money. How does this crimp anyone other than the stupid?
1,799 posted on 12/11/2003 2:07:32 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (America's Enemies foreign and domestic agree: Bush must be destroyed.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
ANY ad can be run at ANY time with ANY content as long as it is funded with hard money. How does this crimp anyone other than the stupid?

Hard money is money donated to the candidate, correct? It's limited in amount on a per person basis, to an amount that wouldn't buy you a 10 second spot. Besides what if I don't want to donate to any candidate, but do wish to oppose (or praise) one or more of them, or merely educate the public to their stance on a particular issue? That I cannot do under the law. Political speech is restricted at the very times it would be most effective, especially in a representative government such as ours, where the electorate has, by design, no direct input into "public policy" matters, but can only influence the government through it's election of public officials.

1,804 posted on 12/11/2003 2:24:24 PM PST by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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