I'm not sure of anything when it comes to campaign finance laws. I am pretty sure of how I feel about one specific issue though: If it is against the law for a foreign city to host a presumptive US presidential candidate, solely to give him an arena in which to speak, then the law is ridiculous.
Just how I feel. On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you so sure? Meeting with people in private is not the same as > giving a speech in public. After all, police, firefighters/paramedics, > cleanup crews - all sorts of public services will be used for this > event. Presumably those public services will be paid for by German > taxpayer dollars. City costs for an event of this size could be in the > hundreds of thousands of euros. And the Mayor of Berlin has > specifically said he is doing it to push the campaign of Barack Obama. > Are we to understand that public officials in other countries are free > to provide material contributions to the campaigns of our candidates? > Is that really what you are suggesting? > > This is not a partisan issue. I would call out John McCain or any > other politician who tried to do the same thing. > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:16 AM, G Money wrote: > > It is? Really? > > > > Obama is visiting Iraq, where he's meeting with all sorts of > > leaders......does that mean they are tacitly supporting him too? > > > > What if McCain were to head to Canada and give a speech about the > > US/Canadian relationship....would that be construed as Canadian support > for > > a McCain presidency???? > > > > This seems to be over-the-top ridiculous....... > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:264280 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
