Posted on 03/20/2002 4:33:41 PM PST by erk
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
March 20, 2002
Statement by the President
Like many Republicans and Democrats in the Congress, I support common-sense reforms to end abuses in our campaign finance system. The reforms passed today, while flawed in some areas, still improve the current system overall, and I will sign them into law.
The legislation makes some important progress on the timeliness of disclosure, individual contribution limits, and banning soft money from corporations and labor unions, but it does present some legitimate constitutional questions. I continue to believe the best reform is full and timely disclosure of campaign contributions.
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AMEN !!!
Companies are made up of people, who can vote.
Yep!! And he is on his way to Monterey, Mexico tomorrow to meet with Co-President Vicente Fox to sell the rest of America down the tubes for a few Mexican votes. Since 245(i) passed the house, he has his little suprise package in his pocket. It's sickening!!
Is this a case of the Repubs playing Brier Rabbit ??
Louis Freeh and Charles G. LaBella weren't able to convince the Diesel Dyke to appoint an independent counsel to investigate that issue vis a vis the 1996 presidential campaign. Hence non-citizens sent so much Charlie Trie had an OSHA claim for a back injury.
It seems like so many of the posters here are against CFR because of the concept that soft money contributions are a form of free speech under the constitution.CFR wasn't even on the back burner until Clinton suddenly announced that we needed it. Why did he say that? To change the subject from the fact that he had been caught redhanded violating existing campaign laws! So passing and signing CFR is, in the first instance, (barf alert!) vindication of x42.Am I missing some other reasons most people here are against this? I'm sort of up in the air at the moment, and trying to determine what I think.
The irony of the matter is that in fact politics should be banned from the "public airwaves." Of course you shouldn't do it by halves, as in CFR--journalism is politics and should be banned from the public airwaves.
And that is because the fundamental aspect of freedom of speech and press is equality before the law. Broadcasting as we know it could not exist if everyone had an equal right to broadcast--so the only way to make us all politically equal (within the limits of our respective pocketbooks) is to ban political broadcasting by anybody.
...and I won't vote for him again.
Citizens who can vote.
Kids sending money were really parents sending money in their kids' names.
Look, I'm for anybody being able to donate as much as they want. But, as long as we're limiting, let's keep non-residents from sending money to campaigns for Senate and the House. That would keep the Hollywood money in California.
I am so sick and tired of Bush selling us out, and even though he's supposed to be better than Gore, that beatnik won't get my vote if he keeps up this kind of back-stabbing nonsense!
IMHO, of course.
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