GOP Lawsuit - Ease Up On McCain-Feingold

[HuskyCaucasian]

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/11/13/po...ry4599159.shtml

 

The Republican National Committee has filed lawsuits challenging "the constitutionality of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act's ban on national parties raising and spending non-federal dollars, and the constitutionality of political party coordinated expenditure limits."

 

The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act is better known as the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill, and the lawsuit is effectively an effort to overturn it.

 

The effort, the Washington Times argues, amounts to "a slap in the face" to 2008 GOP presidential nominee John McCain, whose advocacy for the bill angered many conservatives.

 

The suits seek to overturn the ban on the generally unregulated contributions known as "soft money," a key componant of the McCain-Feingold legislation, and to get rid of limits on coordinated spending between political parties and candidates.

[NorthSideSox72]

McCain-Feingold started as a set of good ideas, and ended up passing as something very flawed.

 

We need real campaign finance reform, but the problem is, Congress and the President are not motivated to change it.

 

[HuskyCaucasian]

McCain-Feingold started as a set of good ideas, and ended up passing as something very flawed.

 

We need real campaign finance reform, but the problem is, Congress and the President are not motivated to change it.

see, they want to loosen the M-F rules, I'd argue the rules need to be much tighter.

 

Especially with these joint accounts that go around public financing and "independent expenditures"

Edited November 13, 2008 by Athomeboy_2000