Gene Martinez offers:
>This law should be unconstitutional. Under the First Amendment, I doubt
>seriously if this law can be enforced if challenged. Political speech like
>lawn signs should receive a higher level of protection than other forms of
>advertising that can be regulated under First Amendment law. Maybe we
>should ask Randy Tigue, who is a local member of the national First
>Amendment Lawyers Association for an opinion.
I asked my wife the (part-time) election lawyer for an explanation of how
such laws are constitutionally OK. Apparently charging by the minute, she
offered:
>restricting manner and means not content
Which means (Zen koan factor aside) that if the rule applies to all
candidates and is not content-based, it ok. I think.
David Brauer
List manager
Happy we're debating Supreme Court rulings and not list manager rulings
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