Your vote: Campaign finance reform!!!

...For who???

This copied from CNN (Great folks! And thanks!!!)

http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/02/14/campaign.finance/

"The Shays-Meehan bill includes provisions to:


Ban national political parties from raising or spending so-called "soft money." This type of funding is largely unregulated and comes from unlimited contributions from corporations, labor unions and wealthy individuals.


Prohibit unions and corporations from using soft money to fund advertising that mentions a federal candidate within 60 days of a general election and 30 days of a primary.


Raise the limit on individual contributions to federal candidates, or so-called "hard money," from $1,000 to $2,000.


Triple the amount of "hard money" that can be received by candidates running against a wealthy, self-financed opponent.


Allow state and local parties to raise and spend up to $10,000 in soft money from each donor for get-out-the-vote efforts and a few other party activities."

the House rejected a Dick Armey amendment to this bill that stated simply that nothing in the bill could violate the First Amendment. They rejected that, which means they know that they're in violation of the First Amendment.

Again: in the last 60 days before a general election, and the last 30 days before a primary, you cannot run an ad about an opponent or a challenger. The political class now has succeeded in placing themselves in charge of the electoral process, guaranteeing, for the most part, their own reelection. My friends, that's not what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they dreamed up this Constitution and this country. That is not American in any way.

Money is like water. It'll find its way wherever it wants to go, no matter what obstacles you try to put in its way.The money in politics, supposedly such a huge scourge, is not going to be reduced at all by this bill - and I will apologize if I'm wrong about this. I will apologize if there's one less dollar in politics after this reform than there was before it. Instead, all that will happen is that the same editorialists who misinformed you in 2000 about George W. Bush being a frat boy, a dim light bulb, a man who couldn't lead anyone anywhere, will now be able to mislead you with a freer hand.

This is not about money, but about incumbents and democrats.  Whatever it takes to limit your rights, the dam liberals are going to do it.  I hate liberal politics and its promotion of socialism .

I hope other conservatives back me up on this one.  Stand up for what you believe in.  Don't leave me alone like when no one commented about liberal economics.

Have you heard anything on the Ney/Hoyer bill?