Smith-Noble Fireworks at Hearing

Okay, so it may not be thrilling to watch the FEC's 527 hearing on C-SPAN. But from this page click on the Day 2 (Morning Hearing) and advance to about 1 hour and 40 minutes into it to watch a very heated exchange between FEC Chair Brad Smith and Center for Responsive Politics' Larry Noble.

Speaking of multimedia, here is the link to Peter Overby's NPR report. (Link via Ed Still.)

"ACT Brings In $6.5 Million During 1st Quarter"

Roll Call offers this breaking news report. Two snippets:

Again, the vast majority of those donations came from a handful of extremely wealthy individuals. Newsweb Corp. President Fred Eychaner contributed $500,000; New York City philanthropists Lewis Cullman ($450,000) and Alida Messinger ($250,000) were also large donors to the group in the period. Neither financier George Soros nor Progressive Corp. Chairman Peter Lewis gave to ACT between Jan. 1 and March 31. The two combined to donate $8 million in 2003.
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The Democratic groups received another piece of good news Wednesday when the FEC commissioners signaled that they were unlikely to take any action that could potentially curb the 527s’ activities before the November election.

"Secretary of State Gets Voting Plea"

The Los Angeles Times offers this report, with the following subhead: "Orange County, which had glitches with electronic balloting in March, wants to keep the system. Many such counties will soon be told whether they can."

"Gov. Uses Muscle on Ballot Measures"

The Los Angeles Times offers this report.

Satire from The Onion: "New Negative Campaign Ads Blast Voters Directly"

Don't look at this if you are easily offended.

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