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From: Richard Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 1995 8:12 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FEC regulations violate 1st Amendment
Restoring The 1st Amendment
My name is Richard Lewis, in 1994 I made a second bid for Kentucky's 3rd congressional seat.
I ran as and independent. The Federal Election Commission pursued complaints against my committee for almost four years. I was accused of coordinating with a grassroots political committee.
Coordination would include talking to members of organizations that intend to write and publish articles that would include biographical information and positions that a candidate takes on any issue!
Freedom of speach and freedom of association are understood to exist for all U.S. Citizens including those who do not vote. FEC regulations assume that a candidate is somehow not entitled to freedom of speach or freedom of association unless they are talking to reporters and editors employed by the commercial press! The commercial press is free to endorse any candidate and that endorsement is not considered to have a financial value to a candidates committee!
When a candidate is accused of coordinating with a grassroots political organization they are actually accused of failing to specify a value for any flyers or handbills distributed by a grassroots organization or exceeding a limit that the FEC places on the value of those flyers and handbills.
It is sufficent to say that my 26,000 dollar campaign was typical of those underfunded campaigns that reformers pretend to be concerned about. But if our existing election laws or the proposed reforms were actually written to protect the voting public those election laws could not or would not be used to harrass candidates who achieve 12% of the vote with 26,000 dollars against mainstream candidates with nearly a million each?
I won my case / dismissal with the FEC prosay. FEC attorneys acknowledged that they did not want to go to court with me "they acknowledged I would win." My brief framed Constitutional questions about the regulations I was accused of violating and they acknowledeged those regulations could not meet a Constitutional test.
Our1st amendment did not guarrantee foreign citizens and foreign chartered or domestic corporations superior rights to influence U.S. laws and elections!When the United States Constitution was adopted on March 4, 1789 it's 1st amendment guarrantees applied only to the Church and the people. Freedom of the press literally meant that every citizen was guarranteed the right to own, operate, or hire the use of a printing press.
A printing press was the most advanced means of communication in that era.Corporations "much to the chagrin of corporate attorneys" did not enjoy Constitutional protections during the first ninety-seven years of our Republic. In 1886 the Supreme Court decreed without hearing arguments that "corporations would have the same rights as a person."
see pgs. 347-359 Who Will Tell The People by Willam Greider paperback
Unconstitutional election laws must be repealed, our 1st amendment guarranteed freedom of the press to the Citizens of the United States it did not grant foreign citizens "who are not eligible to vote in the U.S." or foreign and domestic corporations which are not living beings superior 1st amendment rights to influence this nations laws or it's elections.
According to 3rd district Congresswoman Anne Northup R. Kentucky two of the seven largest newspaper chains operating in the United States today are foreign owned.
Existing state and federal election laws presume that foreign citizens and foreign corporations that now operate more than 170 newspapers in the United States are entitled to be exempt from election laws that restrict the political activities of grass roots organizations operated by U.S. Citizens who imagine this:... "are eligible to vote in U.S. elections."
The U.S.Supreme Courts famous decision in the Marbury V.S. Madison case established that our United States Constitution cannot be amended by and ordinary law.
The Newspaper Exemption Act FECA Sec. 431 (2) (9) (B) (i) is and ordinary law. Call your Congressman and your U.S. Senators, Remind them that the 1st Amendment guarranteed freedom of the press to every U.S. Citizen. Make it clear you will not be a 2nd class citizen. Insist that Congress repeal the Newspaper Exemption Act !!!
To the best of my knowledge not one newspaper, broadcaster or political organization brought these facts to the public despite
their emphasis on campaign reform and foreign influence! Richard Lewis
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