True, but money buys signs, posters, ads, buttons, bumper stickers, etc. If I want my "voice" heard in the political debate, then I want to make sure that the candidate that I support is able to get that voice heard. If I want a certain candidate to represent me and those that believe the way that I do Washington, the state capital, mayoral elections, etc. then I want to make contributions to their campaign, so that, in essence, my voice gets heard. I'm not great fan of Ralph Nader's politics, but I think that if he was able to raise more cash, he would have faired better in the last election. But since he doesn't accept soft money, he relies solely on hard money which is limited. So in political campaigns, money does = speech.
Michael Corrigan Programmer Endora Digital Solutions 1900 S. Highland Avenue, Suite 200 Lombard, IL 60148 630-627-5055 x-136 630/627-5255 Fax ----- Original Message ----- From: Jon Hall To: CF-Community Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 9:26 AM Subject: Re: yay! $'s != Speech in my book.... You know what bugs me, i just noticed this the $ sign only has one line. jon ----- Original Message ----- From: "C. Hatton Humphrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 10:12 AM Subject: RE: yay! > > > The house and senate have now both passed the Shays-Meehan campain > > > finance > > > reform bill. Now, let's just hope that Georgey boy signs it. > > > > I actually hope he doesn't. That whole freedom of speech thing keeps > > getting in the way. I shouldn't have my rights taken away because some > > corrupt politicos can't keep their hands out of the cookie jar. > > As I said, I don't like it... I figure it'll go the way of Prohibition, only > I'm willing to let the Supreme Court make that call. > > It does smack of slamming large amounts of tape over everyone's mouth, > doesn't it? > > Hatton > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
