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Campaign finance reform and free speech.(Insider Report)
Reacting to the controversy over ads run by "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth"--an advocacy group made up of Vietnam veterans who dispute John Kerry's account of his wartime heroism--President Bush "urged that all campaign ads by independent groups be halted," noted an August 23 Bloomberg News article. The television ads by the Pro-Republican "Swifties" prompted media scrutiny of "527" groups--independent organizations created to run attack ads against political candidates.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters on August 25 that Mr. Bush planned to file a lawsuit to squelch campaign ads by 527 groups. If court action didn't work, explained McClellan, the president "would be willing to pursue legislative action with Sen. McCain on that."
Under the campaign finance reform law signed by Mr. Bush in 2002, 527 groups who run advocacy ads must avoid "coordination" with any political campaign.
Criticism of the pro-Republican "Swifties" by liberal partisans prompted retaliatory criticism of pro-Democrat 527s such as MoveOn.org and other similar groups bankrolled by billionaire leftist investor George Soros.
The Kerry campaign extended the logic of stifling free speech further by demanding that the Swifties' book Unfit for Command be pulled from store shelves. That demand provoked this reply from Republican apologist Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large for National Review Online: "Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 is surely ...
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The campaign finance reform bill sponsored...would restrict the free-speech rights of issue...attempts to inhibit free speech have been declared...not passing new campaign finance laws. U.S...allowing no new campaign finance laws until existing...laws that ...
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...that so-called campaign-finance reformers, and...shield" from federal campaign-finance law, which ostensibly...major loophole in campaign-finance law because electioneering...American people and free speech. Interestingly...
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...Those in the campaign finance reform community...democracy and campaign finance reform are...will stifle free speech. Alliance...protecting the free speech rights of 501...nation's campaign finance laws. In an...
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- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News February 1, 2001 700+ words
...Congress have introduced new "campaign finance reform" bills that contain...contains multiple restrictions on free speech about politicians. NRLC is...under "Federal Legislation: Free Speech and Campaign Finance Reform." That site already...
- ABC Joins U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell's Lawsuit Against New Campaign Finance...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 10, 2002 700+ words
...challenge to the new campaign finance reform law. ABC believes...Constitution and abridges the free speech rights of the association...and unconstitutional campaign finance reform law. This law blocks the free speech rights of our members...
