Forgive me if I’m wrong, but isn’t there another thread about McCain getting money from Soros as well? If so, sounds like he has influence with the GOP too. I’m doing as the Founders intended and voting my conscience and convictions. That means no vote for the Dems and the GOP.
Was Soros the only item on the list?
There are several articles on FR about McCain/Soros chumminess. There’s also an article from March 2005 listing all the extreme left-wing organizations that financially support McCain’s Reform Institute. I just did a search for it but keep getting a Proxy Server error.
And then there’s this..........
McCain-FeinGold = no freedom of speech = no freedom.
http://www.news.com/The-coming-crackdown-on-blogging/2008-1028_3-5597079.html
Bradley Smith says that the freewheeling days of political blogging and online punditry are over.
In just a few months, he warns, bloggers and news organizations could risk the wrath of the federal government if they improperly link to a campaign’s Web site. Even forwarding a political candidate’s press release to a mailing list, depending on the details, could be punished by fines.
Smith should know. He’s one of the six commissioners at the Federal Election Commission, which is beginning the perilous process of extending a controversial 2002 campaign finance law to the Internet.
In 2002, the FEC exempted the Internet by a 4-2 vote, but U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly last fall overturned that decision. “The commission’s exclusion of Internet communications from the coordinated communications regulation severely undermines” the campaign finance law’s purposes, Kollar-Kotelly wrote.
Smith and the other two Republican commissioners wanted to appeal the Internet-related sections. But because they couldn’t get the three Democrats to go along with them, what Smith describes as a “bizarre” regulatory process now is under way.