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You know me. You know the subject. E-mail or FReep-mail me with any questions.
1 posted on 03/23/2002 2:13:25 PM PST by Congressman Billybob
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To: Congressman Billybob
Bump for the constitution.
2 posted on 03/23/2002 2:19:21 PM PST by OwenKellogg
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To: Congressman Billybob
BTTT
3 posted on 03/23/2002 2:22:33 PM PST by kattracks
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To: Congressman Billybob
Thank you, Congressman Billybob. And good luck in the ring. We need to KO this BS.
Regards, Jim Robinson
4 posted on 03/23/2002 2:29:05 PM PST by Jim Robinson
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To: Congressman Billybob
Any arrangements for contributing by plastic (VISA, etc.)? Since I don't live in the U.S., I don't have a checking account there.
5 posted on 03/23/2002 2:38:10 PM PST by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Congressman Billybob
Thank you! You are a class act. God bless the work of your hands.
6 posted on 03/23/2002 2:40:32 PM PST by .30Carbine
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To: Congressman Billybob
Bump for the Constitution. Go get 'em Congressman!!!
8 posted on 03/23/2002 2:51:39 PM PST by usconservative
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You're a hero, Conressman Billybob. Moistening the postage stamp...
11 posted on 03/23/2002 3:16:54 PM PST by EverOnward
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To: Congressman Billybob
If you want to beat CFR, why did you choose Starr?
So, that you'll lose on the most important aspects of the bill in court?
13 posted on 03/23/2002 3:28:40 PM PST by Nephi
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To: Congressman Billybob
By the way, the ACRU was the client for the very successful brief also filed by Congressman Billybob in the Bush/Florida case.

Which one was that? Could you make a link please?

15 posted on 03/23/2002 4:04:19 PM PST by lepton
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To: Congressman Billybob; Richard Axtell; Cyber Liberty; Slip18; uglybiker; Molly Pitcher...
Will do what I can to get some checks in the mail, Billybob!

LET THE PINGING BEGIN!!!

16 posted on 03/23/2002 4:11:50 PM PST by dittomom
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To: Congressman Billybob; ReaganGirl
I know you've got some tough competition, Billybob! GO GET 'EM!!!

EVERYONE - Please read this from the March 11 issue of National Review...

Supporters of campaign-finance regulation like to portray themselves as an underfunded, scrappy grassroots coalition. However, a study conducted last year for the American Conservative Union by election-law attorney Cleta Mitchell found that groups dedicated to promoting campaign-finance reform spent over $73 million over the three-year period from 1997 through 1999. By comparison, the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), one of the most prominent campaign-finance-reform organizations, lists total political spending by the "mortgage banking" industry at under $12 million, and by "Health Services and HMOs" at under $14 million, for the four-year period from 1997 through 2000. Even the dreaded drug manufacturers contributed just $28 million over that four-year period, or 40 percent of that spent in just three years by groups promoting campaign-finance regulation. Yet the campaign-finance regulators always portray these industries as colossally and harmfully big spenders.

Later in the same article you find this tidbit...

Assuming it becomes law, the bill will not end the influence of money in politics, but instead will drive such influence further underground. A glimpse of the future may have occurred at a dinner last October that raised $800,000 for the Brennan Center, a pro-reform group. Co-chaired by pro-reform senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer, and featuring Sen. John McCain, the dinner was underwritten by corporate donors, who were solicited to attend. Sponsors included over two dozen large law firms with Washington lobbying practices, plus such corporations as Coca-Cola, Philip Morris, and, naturally, Enron.

This National Review Article was entitled, "The Gaggers and Gag-making - Hypocrisy among the campaign-finance reformers" and was written by Bradley A. Smith, a member of the Federal Election Commission.

18 posted on 03/23/2002 4:32:39 PM PST by dittomom
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I am very proud to know you. Do you know if any of our views on the subject are getting through to President Bush? I can't imagine that he cares much but I wonder if any of his staff knows how damaging this is to his political base.
20 posted on 03/23/2002 5:29:56 PM PST by RamsNo1
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In! I'll drop a check in the mail on Monday.
22 posted on 03/23/2002 6:22:51 PM PST by ModernDayCato
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Congressman Billybob, may God bless you and your efforts to defend the Constitution.

May I call your attention to a suggestion I made on this thread? The idea is simply to persist in referring to the bill as "the unconstitutional CFR." This should help make people aware that the bill is indeed unconstitutional.

27 posted on 03/24/2002 4:03:48 AM PST by Smile-n-Win
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To: Congressman Billybob; dubyaismypresident; hobbes1; RikaStrom; xsmommy; gabz; CholeraJoe
Good morning ping!
31 posted on 03/24/2002 5:36:09 AM PST by Slip18
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To: Congressman Billybob
All right boys and girls as the old saying goes, talk is cheap.

This is a good thing for your local chapter to get involved in.

32 posted on 03/24/2002 5:47:30 AM PST by Valin
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To: Congressman Billybob
Bump! I'll send my $25 this week.
53 posted on 03/24/2002 1:55:00 PM PST by RAT Patrol
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57 posted on 03/24/2002 6:19:57 PM PST by ImpBill
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To: Congressman Billybob
BUMP FOR FREEDOM
64 posted on 03/26/2002 8:18:49 AM PST by SUSSA
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fyi
65 posted on 03/26/2002 10:43:16 AM PST by SUSSA
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