On Fox News: Socialist Party exempt from listing donors

7-14-03

[Paul Atreides]

I just saw on FNC that the Campaign Finance Reform exempts the Socialist Party from listing its donors. It was also stated that there are no entities on the right afforded the same exemption. It is done under the notion of protecting free speech for an extreme political entity.

[ElkGroveDan]

It is done under the notion of protecting free speech for an extreme political entity.

Whoa now wait just a minute. I have never heard a RAT use the word Republican WITHOUT the word EXTREME in the same sentence. I demand equal treatment. Either we are extrem or we aren't!

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[Paul Atreides]

They featured a socialist party candidate who advocated heavy, heavy taxation of corporations and the outright takeover, by the gubment, of Boeing.

[blackdog]

I know this is old news. It's just a continuation of a prior policy which makes absolutely no friggin logic whatsoever?

I mean if Charles Manson starts an extremist political party are they exempt from reporting finances? I couldn't think of a finer example when using judicial logic applied here to this rule.

It's right up there with abortion for school age children without parental notification, but the same child needs and absentee permission note from her parents in order to legally miss a day of school. Go figure. Go cry. Go insane. Our courts are a contradictory laughing stock in more concerns of law than not.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[freekitty]

Do Hitlery and Billy Boy head this organization.

You know they think they are a law unto itself.

[Southack]

It protects Democratic Party donors who contribute to both the Democrats as well as to the Socialist Party, so that's why Democrats in Congress love the exemption.

But it allows money to be syphoned away from the Democratic Party, and it even drains a miniscule amount of votes away from the Democrats, too. And that's why Republicans like the exemption.

Welcome to politics.

[Maccabee]

Was it Karen Kubby? Shes a crazy witch who owns half of my home town, i heard she was running.

[Paul Atreides]

That wasn't her name. I can't remember it, but that wasn't it. It might have been Ann something.

[steplock]

WHY did Arkansas Legalize Communism?
Date: Sunday, April 06 @ 19:42:06
Topic Arkansas

Why was there an EMERGENCY CLAUSE to make sure subversive organizations could establish themselves in the Arkansas Banana Republik?

I found PART of the answer from the Federal Elections Committee:

Socialist Workers Party gets FEC exemption on revealing donors
Boston Daily News 3 Apr 2003
Sharon Theimer

WASHINGTON (AP) The Socialist Workers Party still faces the danger of harassment and can continue to keep the identity of its donors secret, the Federal Election Commission ruled Thursday.

The commission voted 4-2 to extend the party's long-standing exemption from FEC reporting requirements for political parties, including rules on identifying contributors.

The granting of the six-year extension came despite the opinion of two commissioners that times have changed and the party no longer faces significant harassment from the government.

Commissioner Danny McDonald voted against the extension, saying he saw only evidence of petty harassment of the party in recent years similar to what other political parties have faced. McDonald cited one case in which oranges were thrown at a party activist and another in which activists were cursed by political opponents.

''The true believers, when they send in a check, and they put it in the public record, they know it might be good for business and it might not be,'' McDonald said.

But the majority of the commissioners said that while harassment of the party has diminished, the organization's long history of threats coupled with anecdotal evidence from recent years justified extending the exemption.

Steve Clark, a member of the party's national committee, welcomed the FEC decision, saying that with the war on terrorism increasingly intruding on political activity, his party needed the protection.

''The times change back and forth,'' Clark said. ''Certainly the past year and a half there's been a much more open attempt by the federal government and states and local governments to push back political rights in this country.''

The Socialist Workers Party advocates a Marxist revolution to overthrow the U.S. government. Taking the Russian and Cuban revolutions of the 20th century as models, it wants to replace the country's capitalist system with a government of workers and farmers.

The exemption was first granted by a court in 1979 and last renewed by the commission in 1996.

The party, who counts its members in the hundreds, had candidates on the ballot in congressional and other races around the country last year; none won. It currently is protesting the war in Iraq.


On the Net:

FEC: http://www.fec.gov/


Minnesota - Home of the Socialist Workers Party, Wellstone, Mondale, DNC

This article comes from Focus on Freedom
http://www.gohotsprings.com/focus/

The URL for this story is:
http://www.gohotsprings.com/focus/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=385

[Beck_isright]

"I just saw on FNC that the Campaign Finance Reform exempts the Socialist Democratic Party from listing its donors."

Just so FR can stay "fair and balanced" and accurate.

[GOPJ]

Double standard... There's no other excuse.

[GOPJ]

Double standard... There's no other excuse.

[LiteKeeper]

bump

[sweetliberty]

"Do Hitlery and Billy Boy head this organization."

Seems like the perfect way for disreputable RATs to launder campaign finance money.