The law will only apply to the Republican Party.
TRANSLATION: Incumbents get to regulate challengers out of existence.
This is wrong, wrong, wrong.
Say NO to ever-more government meddling.
Keep democrats from ramming through this nonsense.
Harry Reid is just p*ssed because the Koch Brothers only gave him $500 lousy bucks!
http://freebeacon.com/blog/harry-reid-took-money-from-koch-lobbyist/
They expended the effort to Emmanuel Goldstein the Koch Brothers to the point that liberals really think they are magical demonic gods controlling the universe.
Now, they're telling these gullible dipsh1ts that the Democratic Party is fighting to slay the demons through their own super powerful magic - a constitutional amendment that trumps all counter efforts !! So send them lots of money so they can keep up the good fight and free us from our Kochmonster overlords.
Our founding fathers made the constitutional amendment process far too rigorous for nonsense like this to ever get past the posturing phase.
Is there also an anti-Sorros amendment?
This is a thorny problem. How do you block money from Koch and Limbaugh and Sarah Palin superpacs while letting Soros, Zuckerman, Bill Gates money flood in?
Putting incumbents in charge of challenger’s funding will be the end of government by the people.
He does this only to fill the headlines with his stupidity so there won't be any room left for what's really going on.
I’d like to see a 28th Amendment where all outside political funding is outlawed. All lobbying is outlawed.
A fund is created for Presidential, House & Senate campaigns.
Each side gets identical identical funds. Each side gets identical time on all news outlets. When one ad runs, the opposing ad must run. The best man or woman wins.
Any negative ads against the opponent and you’re disqualified.
You have 6 months ONLY prior to the election to start campaigning. Start any sooner and you’re disqualified.
Limit all terms to 2 terms max.
No retirement unless you go on to complete 20 or years of combined civil service.
I’ll ad that Lawyers are not allowed to run PERIOD.
How about the following re campaign funding:
Federal
Senate: All funds must come from from within the state in which the candidate is running. Individual contributors must be state residents and business contributors must be incorporated in the state.
House of Representatives: All funds must come from within the district that the candidate will represent. Individual contributors must be residents of the district and business contributors must be incorporated in the district.
State elections based upon the same principles of funding being limited to area which the candidate will actually represent.
It is not going anywhere
Majority of House needs to ratify it
Majority of Senate needs to ratify it
Same Amendment no changes identical
Then it goes to the State Legislators and 38 States must ratify it.
Anyone seeing our dysfunctional Country getting this accomplished?
No other entity can give money. Not unions, not pacs, not corporations, not trusts, not foundations, etc.
From today’s Patriot Post:
“[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments, is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands.” —James Madison, Federalist No. 48, 1788
This will not apply to unions. I did PAC reports for a labor union in CA. According to the law, the donations are not made by the union itself, but the thousands of members in the union. If a member didn’t want to donate to political activities, they could be “fair share” payers, but they were harassed by others.