As a follow-up to my earlier post on McCain-Feingold, I need to point you to the follow-up of an article I linked to in that post. Ryan Sager is on top of the story behind “Campaign Finance Reform” here, and the transcript of the video he talks about is here.
The tape — of a conference held at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication in March of 2004 — shows Treglia expounding to a gathering of academics, experts and journalists (none of whom, apparently, ever wrote about Treglia’s remarks) on just how Pew and other left-wing foundations plotted to create a fake grassroots movement to hoodwink Congress.
I don’t care whether it is being drive from the left or the right. The BCRA is a sham, and is designed to do nothing but keep money and power in the hands of incumbents. I think I need to write to my Congressman and Senators once again. I haven’t heard anything back from my most recent epistles.
Don’t get mad, get even!
The scandal here, again, is the one that’s gone largely unremarked. The Supreme Court agreed to the evisceration of the First Amendment. We can punish the politicians involved. We can withhold our contributions from these foundations. But we have, sh…
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