More comments... some of the amendments not being incorporated into this bill:
These are amendments WERE NOT incorporated, they were voted against. - An immediate ban on all soft money effective on the passing of the bill. - Ban soft money to state and local elections. - No portion of the bill can violate First Amendment rights. Hatton > -----Original Message----- > From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 12:27 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: yay! > > > > -- It prohibits labor unions and corporations from using "soft money" to > > fund advertising that mentions a federal candidate within 60 days of a > > general election and 30 days of a primary. While these organizations can > > finance some ads through political action committees, they must > > disclose the names of their donors. > > Two notes of clarification (listening to Rush on this topic) > > The bill includes provisions stating that no advertising campaign of any > kind may be run to criticize an opponent or an incumbent, which means that > if you think your opponent screwed up the you can't say anything about it > within the 60 and 30 day limits. > > Also, most people don't start "researching" who they want to vote > for until > the last 2 weeks or so before an election... either that or > they've already > made up their minds. > > So, I still stick with my logical conclusion that the bill is > abridging the > freedom of speech. Ethical actions of the recipients aside, > there's serious > problems with this picture. > > Hatton > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
