McCain Praises Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Campaign Finance

PHXnews ^ | 6/16/03 | John McCain

[AZ Righty]

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) released the following statement today in response to the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the ban on direct, political contributions:

“The Supreme Court’s decision today ..."

*I do not have permission to post McCain's comments but I saw them at http://www.phxnews.com/

[hellinahandcart]

You don't need permission to post his comments.

[RAT Patrol]

While we're destroying the first amendment, let's knock the press down a notch or two too.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Not much of a description of the ruling to even form an opinion.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Decision here:

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/02pdf/02-403.pdf

[AZ Righty]

McCain would prefer you wouldn't know too much about this issue.

[Mo1]

I'm still shaking my head that these law makers think they have to pass a law to make them honest

[AntiGuv]

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) released the following statement today in response to the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the ban on direct, political contributions:

“The Supreme Court’s decision today to uphold the ban on direct, political contributions from corporations is both welcome and consistent with legal precedent and congressional reform efforts. Corporations have been barred from making campaign contributions from their general treasury funds for almost a century, and I am heartened by the Court’s refusal today to erode that prohibition and open up the potential for corruption and circumvention. Americans deserve a political finance system that is free from the taint of corruption and the undue influence of special interests.”

[Blood of Tyrants]

From this part (near the end of the third page)

"even NCRL’s argument that §441b is not closely drawn rests on the false premise that the provision is a complete ban. In fact, the provision allows corporate political participation through PACs. And this Court does not think that regulatory burdens on PACs, including restrictions on their ability to solicit funds, renders a PAC unconstitutional as an advo-cacy corporation’s sole avenue for making political contributions."

It doesn't appear that too much has changed.

[OldFriend]

If I am not mistaken, the ruling was case specific and had nothing to do with the McCain Feingold travesty.

McC and the media spewing bullship as usual.

[theDentist]

Reminds me of something that happened in Mass. The Legislature had voted themselves another midnight pay raise. One of the (Dem) leadership defended it, saying that by passing the payraise they wouldn't have to depend on corruption to stay ahead of the economy.

[Mo1]

One of the (Dem) leadership defended it, saying that by passing the payraise they wouldn't have to depend on corruption to stay ahead of the economy.

OMG .. did they say that with a straight face

It if wasn't so sad .. it would be laughable

[plain talk]

If so, then McCain will look like an idiot later if the court later gives him a ruling he doesn't like.

[theDentist]

Yup. I'll have to dig up the quote. I think the spokesman was "anonymous". It was several years ago. will check when I get home.

[OldFriend]

McC is so shameless nothing can faze him at all.

[adam_az]

I wish McCain took the issue of the army buying chinese made berets as seriously as he takes this crap.

[BaBaStooey]

SCOTUS did not uphold the McCain-Feingold bill. They upheld a somewhat related case regarding a 32 year old federal law prohibiting adcovacy groups from giving campaign contributions to a candidate.

The title of this article is somewhat misleading, something we've come to expect from the mainstream media.

I feel that some parts of McCain-Feingold will not survive - for example, the 60 days prior to an election (or however many days it is) ban of all campaign advertisements.

I'm kind of surprised liberal activists aren't raising as much of a stink. McCain-Feingold aka The Media's Political Views Empowerment Act also bestows the same influence on banes of liberal existence like Limbaugh-Hannity-Savage-O'Reilly.

[DoughtyOne]

I give up, where's the article?

[DoughtyOne]

I fully support your effort to get people to post full content.

This site is becoming nothing more than one big excerpt. Ten days later those posts are rubbage.



D1

[js1138]

Considering that CFR is hurting the dems more than the pubbies, things could be worse.