This is a prime example of the lack of knowledge of your average FR poster over CFR.
This bill allows issue ads as long as they are paid with soft money, and the source is identified.
Any group can buy issue ads right up until election day. What appears to have changed is advocacy, the ads can't say "Vote for...", "Support ...", in other words, no ads asking you to vote for a specific politician.
So if we jump through the FEC hoops, get the blessing of government and don't really say what we want to explicity say, then we can still make believe that our right to freedom of speech has not been infringed?
Questions - In the days before an election, while you are trying to get your (diluted and controlled) message out to voters - who or what prevents the local radio or tv or newspaper from NOT running your ad because they say it violates the law? Is this covered in the law? Is there any rememdy if the ad does not get to run? Will the couts be dedicated to answering last minute challenges to ads being denied? Or do they just get lost in the shuffle? Can this decisions be appealed in time?
Do you still not see the infringement?
You got it wrong. The ad must be payed for with "hard" money. Hard money is money that has been paid to a candidate and recorded as such. The effect is such that if you don't support a candidate (or the candidate doesn't support your views) you can't place an ad because the ad must be funded by a candidate that has access to "hard" money.
EBUCK