Paying for campaigns: McCain eyes next target

By John McCain

The elections of 2004 proved the success of the McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act while highlighting a new problem within the system that still needs to be addressed.
The 2002 bill I sponsored with Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., has worked well to achieve its most important objective. It was primarily designed to eliminate the corrupt influence that corporations, labor unions and wealthy individuals had on our government through their large soft-money contributions.

Today, soft money is illegal in federal campaigns. No longer can a president, senator, member of Congress or head of a national party solicit huge sums of unregulated money for a federal campaign. Before McCain-Feingold, corporate and labor-union donors forked over six- and seven-figure soft-money contributions to gain access to and buy influence over officeholders — or perhaps worse — to avoid legislative reprisals from them.

Further evidence of the act's success is the significant reduction of s ham "issue ads." In the mid-1990s, corporations and labor unions began evading laws that banned the use of their treasury funds for federal elections by using those funds to pay for campaign ads that attacked and promoted federal candidates and were disguised as "issue ads." The act shut down this circumvention of the law by requiring corporations and labor unions to use PAC money, raised voluntarily from individuals, and not their treasury funds, to run ads referring to federal candidates.

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I'm tired of his punk ass trying to be portray himself as Mr. Moderate. In his undying kiss ass support of the Chimp in this election he showed his true colors. I'm sorry, but this genuine war hero is now just another two faced, punk ass coward rethuglican in my book.

Fuck McCain, but you beat me to it hehe.
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FUCK McCAIN!

river to satisfy his greed and his ego.

:shrug:

rage. He blew any bit of credibility and bipartisanship. Anyone who helped Bush in the campaign is responsible for everything the BushCo Admin has done and will do.

but no more, and there's no way he will ever gain my respect again.

he's just a whore like most of the other repukes in Washington

"you should be ashamed." :mad:

Nothing scares the GOP more than the possibility that one issue will bring the entire 3 million Move-on members online to contribute 10 -25 bucks to get their message out. GOP handlers don't like that much power in a democratic type organization, it goes against all they believe in, they think a few individuals should control the message.

Once again I say, I wish Move-on would spread out to the airwaves and start buying radio stations to promote our message in places where it is not heard today. We need a steady, day after day message machine to offset the right wing propaganda machine that has most it's listeners brainwashed. I am sure Move-On could get the money, perhaps selling shares to individuals so everyone that contributes is actually a part owner.

The Republic is dead, you know that. Must you tease me by trying to keep up appearances to the contrary.

Corporations still control our their government and politicians.

the korporate kontrolled senate - course MoveOn threatens korporate amerika. is this his payoff for kissing yellow rogues ass?