Loose Democracy
October 16, 2004

ReReform campaign finance?

Matt Stoller writes:

I'm going to go out on a limb and pronounce campaign finance reform a massive success, and then suggest that it should be repealed. On the success side, the new caps on donations forced creative use of the internet to break the Democratic Party's addiction to corporate money, tired direct mail lists, and the corrupt Clinton money machine. It did something similar on the right...

But something screwed up happened along the way - the mess of 501c(s), 527s, PACs, and campaign committees, along with Sinclair (and Stern, Soros, Chamber of Commerce, etc), and the internet, have made validating legal political speech impossible...

Campaign finance reform is one of those topics about which I believe whatever the person I last heard says. Matt is that person. Fortunately, he's someone I have a lot of respect for, so my current (= most recent) opinion is very likely to be correct.

Posted at 8:07 AM | Email this entry | Category: E-process
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Yay! Someone respects me!

I always knew it would happen one day.

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