[EL] "A Note on Campaign Finance Reform: Limiting the Right to Make Campa...

[RuthAlice Anderson]

While I enjoyed the gentle rebukes to James Bopp's malignant email, I get very tired of his continued insistence that he and he alone is exempt from the rules about civility a and good manners. He's very fast to complain about breaches of civility and defines the bar exceedlingly low when discussing campaign finance and conflicts of interest yet blithely equates people who disagree with him as Hitler, Pol Pot and yes, Neapolitan Ice Cream. 

While he has been influential in changing campaign finance with his Supreme Court suits and thus, surely, it is valuable to all on this listserv to read and learn his opinions, however much some of us may disagree with them. However, he repeated insulting and offensive language should not be tolerated because of who he is. He claims the privilege of exemption from the rules to bully people he disagrees with. I know I am not the only one who is tired of his bullyboy language and tactics as other people have complained to the listserv as well. 

Still there are never any consequences. I would suggest that if he cannot apologize and behave better that a temporary suspension might remind him that there are some rules that we all follow and that he is not exempt. 


RuthAlice Anderson