Campaign Reform Faces Legal Threat: Restraints Faulted by Everyone from ACLU, to NRA to AFL-CIO

Wall St Journal ^ | 11-6-02

[SJackson]

New campaign-finance rules take effect Wednesday, but reformers barely done toasting their triumph face the prospect of losing the battle in the courtroom to a group of plaintiffs that make strange bedfellows.

WASHINGTON -- Early on March 27, Cleta Mitchell, a National Rifle Association lawyer, got the news from a White House insider: President George W. Bush had signed into law new rules for the U.S.'s discredited campaign-finance system.

[metesky]

I was thinking that campaign finance reform could turn out to be one of those things that turns and bites them that done it.

After all we've been calling it the Incumbent Protection Act, and the Dems and McCrazy passed it with that in mind, only they were protecting liberal incumbents.

Who's being protected now?

Bwahahaha!

I still think it should be repealed.

[BSunday]

Why did Bush sign this bill into law? This is the worst threat to free speech in my lifetime. Look at the people who are opposing it. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how bad it is when people who are usually at each others throats suddenly band together to fight it.