[July 4th]

This law is unconstitutional and not worthy of being followed by me.

This does not apply to you personally, only your issue advocacy group. Anyone here can still walk into a TV station, cut a check from their personal funds and run an attack ad.

Not that I'm defending this total piece of crap from the court, but the decision only affects groups, not you personally.

[PhiKapMom]

Not that I'm defending this total piece of crap from the court, but the decision only affects groups, not you personally.

That deserved big bold lettering. People's freedom of speech have not been stopped by this bill -- never was and never will be. Like you said, they can write any amount of check they want to buy an add. Move-On.org cannot to put in perspective. Thanks for posting this!

[muskogee]

...cut a check from their personal funds...
Only now, your personal funds are no longer private. They and your party affiliation may be more heavily scrutinized if you are a republican. (attack speech will be presumed guilty of violating c.f. law)

[Dan from Michigan]

This does not apply to you personally, only your issue advocacy group. Anyone here can still walk into a TV station, cut a check from their personal funds and run an attack ad.

It's a little different if you work in an issue advocacy department like I did in the 02 races......

[jaugust]

"Anyone here can still walk into a TV station, cut a check from their personal funds and run an attack ad."

True but not everyone here can AFFORD to financially. This is why we rely on representatives for whatever special interest group we belong to to speak for us. And we ALL belong to a special interest group, every single one of us.
And I may be wrong here but even if you do go into a TV station and pay for a political ad, you could come under investigation as to where your money came from and if you belong to any special interest group.

[cc2k]

July 4th wrote:

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Anyone here can still walk into a TV station, cut a check from their personal funds and run an attack ad.

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I'm almost certain that your "attack ad" couldn't mention the name of any candidate, mention enough identifying information about any candidate to enable people to figure out who your ar talking about, and it certainly couldn't have any pictures of any candidates in it or any voices of any candidates.

The restrictions on "electioneering communications" in this law apply to everyone except for actual declared candidates and the news media. Unless you declare your candidacy, you can't run an attack ad, not even with your own personal funds.

I'd like to be proven wrong on this, but I think I've got a pretty good understanding of the actual law as it is today.

[El Gato]

This does not apply to you personally, only your issue advocacy group. Anyone here can still walk into a TV station, cut a check from their personal funds and run an attack ad. Not that I'm defending this total piece of crap from the court, but the decision only affects groups, not you personally.

That's just jolly. So George Soros can buy an attack add, but I can't get together with a few tens of thousands of my closest friends and do the same?

It's not just the freedom of speech and press clauses of the first amendment that they ripped up, but in effect the assembly and petition parts as well.