FEC Sues Pro-Republican Political Group (Club for Growth)

ap on Yahoo ^ | 9/19/05 | Sharon Theimer - ap

[A CA Guy]

How is moveon.org and Soros handled?

[RippleFire]

bump

[RWR8189]

I wish the Club good luck in protecting their First Amendment rights to free speech.

I will continue to donate to them.

[flashbunny]

damn that free speech!

[TheConservator]

"Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, . . ."

What part of the foregoing authorizes Congress to empower the FEC to tell the Club of Growth what it can and cannot say?

[.cnI redruM]

Yeah, I noticed they didn't have the guts to try it on MoveOn or ACT.

[freepatriot32]

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[zzen01]

Go ahead FEC give it a whirl! A Roberts Supreme Court will hand you your ASS!

[traviskicks]

I will continue to donate to them.
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I wonder if the Republican party is caving into this because the CFG is challenging so many of their RINO 'hand picked' establishment candidates that love to porkbarrel and expand government. They almost unseated Spector and Coburn is causing all kinds of trouble for the bloated big spending Republicans in the Senate.

The CFG is the most outstanding political organization that exists in the United States.

http://www.clubforgrowth.org/why.php

I wouldn't give one cent to the Republican party.

[traviskicks]

This is a very big story, with broad implications.

[Valpal1]

I look forward SCOTUS scuttling the FEC rules and campaign finance laws.

[TBP]

Further proof that the FEC is just one more government agency whose mission is to keep Democrats in power nasd Big Government in place.

[sphinx]

What part of the foregoing authorizes Congress to empower the FEC to tell the Club of Growth what it can and cannot say?

Penumbra seventeen of the ninth emanation, which clearly overrides the archaic, eighteenth century relic you choose to cite.

[kcvl]

"At stake is whether Club for Growth will be able to continue raising and spending millions of dollars in soft money for activities influencing federal elections," said Toner, a Republican.

It's called FREE SPEECH, YOU IDIOT!

[HAL9000]

This is an outrageous attack on the First Amendment. CFG is an excellent organization.

[BJClinton]

Mkay, so how about the Rainbow Coalition, NOW, all of the Gay/Lesbian Alliances etc. Maybe the big government Pubbies figure they can take our real conservatives/Libertarians and open the floodgates of lawsuits against democrat groups at the same time.

I'm also curious where Dubya is on all of this.

[jmc813]

I wonder if the Republican party is caving into this because the CFG is challenging so many of their RINO 'hand picked' establishment candidates that love to porkbarrel and expand government.

I hate to sound tin-foilish, but that's the first thing that crossed my mind too. I've completely stopped donating to the GOP in leiu of the CFG and encourage all freepers to do the same.

[Still Thinking]

President Bush's re-election campaign and the sponsors of the 2002 campaign finance law sued the FEC last year, accusing it of failing to enforce the law and crack down on soft money spending, particularly in the presidential race. Those cases are pending in federal court.

Sounds like he's taking a firm 1A stance against unConstitutional finance "reform" (after all he only signed it cause he thought scotus would invalidate it). From the article:

President Bush's re-election campaign and the sponsors of the 2002 campaign finance law sued the FEC last year, accusing it of failing to enforce the law and crack down on soft money spending, particularly in the presidential race. Those cases are pending in federal court.

[Still Thinking]

Wups. Forgot the < /sarcasm > tag. Some Freepers don't get it unless you include one.