Rod & Betty Jo wrote:
"charlieb" wrote in message
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Charlie Self wrote:

How about something simple.

1. If you can't vote for the person you're giving money to
for his/her campaign - you can't give him/her ANY money.

You don't believe in freedom much do you?

That eliminates Corporate Donations, PAC donations, Lobbyist
donations, Special Interest Groups donations, etc.

So groups of people with a important view or interest (at least to them)
should not be allowed to communicate or be heard?


2. You cannot donate more than - oh lets say - $5K total to
any single candidate - that you can vote for.

So you wish to raise the current campaign contribution limit of $2300?

Now if we can somehow change the latest Supreme Court Ruling
that says Money = Speech and limiting political contributions
is limiting "free speech" . . . The iron of "free" in "free speech"
being the same as Mo' Money! still astounds me. But that's just
one example of some pretty convoluted legal "reasoning" we've
encountered over the last 8 years.

Since we have very stringent and very specific campaign finance limits with
serious reporting requirements. What issue begs such concern? All we really
need is specific knowledge of where the money comes from, where the money
goes and how our politicians vote.

Since Obama has significantly "changed" his public position of election
funding for his campaign(no limits) and McCain did not and since McCain did
pass significant bipartisan campaign finance reform I assume McCain is
ideologically your kind of guy.

The free speech issue with campaign finance limits is that voices will not
or cannot be heard. National and even local media will have and can have a
huge propaganda advantage to their will. The past weekends unfounded and
largely false attacks on Palin are a ready case in point of possibilities,
as the airwaves were flooded with much vile. How does one respond to such
type of attacks if like minded people are not allowed to pool resources and
communicate? Rod

Don't put my name on one line that I wrote and tack on a lot of lines
from elsewhere. I probably disagree with you anyway, but this is
something on the order of a sneak attack, attributing **** to me that
I didn't write. Check Snopes for info on Palin, by the way. Just
another cheap-assed half-truth loving politico liar.

If I were making the rules, I'd top registered voters' donations out
at a grand or so. Basically, that ****s the groups who have been
overspending and over-influencing for decades. I think that's just
fine, because those groups have been screwing John Q. long enough.