It's a deeply flawed bill, and it violates the First Amendment rights of many.
My former Washington Automotive Press Association colleague Mark Tapscott has the details.
Excerpt:
"And five years later, none of the promises of the McCain-Feingold advocates has been fulfilled. The "corrupting influence of money in politics" is as strong as ever and there is no evidence that the law has had one iota of influence on the degree of citizen participation in politics.
If anything, earmarks financed with tax dollars - the real corrupting influence of money in politics - is at an all-time high. Several congressmen have been convicted of crimes related to earmarks and the Republicans lost their congressional majority last November largely because they couldn't resist this genuine form of the corrupting influence of money in politics."
Any law can only be as good as iot's enforcement. Washington wants to look the other way, and therefore will.BB
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