[EL] Republican Nirvana

[Steve Klein]

>
> Wow. Talk about a misrepresentation and distortion. Did somebody forget
> the very case he argued before the Supreme Court? Super PACs and c4
> participation are the wellspring of court decisions. Arguing otherwise is a
> dishonest attempt to call for the elimination of all contribution limits.


“Hard limits were what gave soft money its allure . . . . If large
soft-money donations were banned, the parties might wilt as interest groups
circumvented them. And where would the special interests take their money?
Probably into ad campaigns of their own. Politicians already complain that
they are becoming pawns in their own races because their fund raising is
limited while that of outside interests is not. Banning soft money could
remove campaigns further from the candidates' and parties' control.”

- Jonathan Rauch, *National Journal*, March 1997.

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Tyler Creighton <tyler at rethinkmedia.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 1:29 PM, jboppjr <jboppjr at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Absurdly low contribution limits are the wellspring from which superpacs
>> and c4 participation in politics flows
>
>
> Wow. Talk about a misrepresentation and distortion. Did somebody forget
> the very case he argued before the Supreme Court? Super PACs and c4
> participation are the wellspring of court decisions. Arguing otherwise is a
> dishonest attempt to call for the elimination of all contribution limits.
>
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