Corruption in Politics
Remember how campaign finance reform was supposed to cure us of all that corruption in DC? Well, Bradley Smith makes a simple, yet key point:
“Are we better off with McCain-Feingold?” Smith asks. If it were overturned, he adds, “that would put us in a system that existed before Jack Abramoff, William Jefferson, Bob Ney, Mark Foley and Ted Stevens. Those scandals happened during the McCain-Feingold era.”
I would pull the Mark Foley incident out of that list just because I don’t think it’s relevant to the topic at hand. However, the others are absolutely relevant.
So I went over to check out Smith’s organization dedicated to beating down campaign finance laws, and discovered they have a blog. Yay! Without RSS. Boo! Even though I’m interested in the issue, this essentially means that I won’t remember to keep up with them since I can’t add them to Bloglines. Which is too bad since it means I may miss stories like this from NYC:
The New York Sun reported yesterday that New York City’s new campaign finance law, currently being challenged by Jim Bopp, will bar more than 12,000 city residents from fully exercising their political rights.
The law sets disparate contribution limits based on whether or not the contributor is a lobbyist or does business with the city. Unions and union members, however, are exempt from the law.
Nice.
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