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To: patriciaruth
Ohhh, the issue won't die as long as there is a percieved benefit to the left in arguing about it, call it "Keep Hope Alive" if you will.

The left will merely claim that the Supremes who knock it down are Evil Republican Appointed justices, and the fact that they struck it down is proof positive that more "reform" is needed.

Nope. As sick as I am of hearing about campaign finance reform, I'm resigned to hear about it forever.

8 posted on 12/05/2002 1:32:01 AM PST by biggerten
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To: biggerten
From the article:

All of this was entirely predictable; in fact it's an eerie repetition of what happened after the post-Watergate campaign reform of 1974. Business and labor PACs proliferated, as did millionaire candidates, who could spend as much of their own money as they wanted. The courts upheld some spending limits but struck down others, creating a maze of new loopholes. A main author of that reform, Fred Wertheimer, is still whispering into John McCain's ear today that if only we can pass one more . . . The poor Senator is now his personal Sancho Panza.

10 posted on 12/05/2002 2:33:23 AM PST by Teacher317
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