1. I'm guessing that an optimally designed public financing system would
have a threshold of support metric that this party would fail to achieve.

2. That said, the fact that "obscenity" can genuinely be political (cf. the
creator of "The O.C." stating that the censorship of his television program
was due to Bush's appointees at the FCC:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/050908a ) goes to
show just how anti-constitutional/textual obscenity doctrine has become.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-election-law_gl@majordomo.lls.edu
[mailto:owner-election-law_gl@majordomo.lls.edu] On Behalf Of Lowenstein,
Daniel
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 6:08 PM
To: election-law@majordomo.lls.edu
Subject: Anarchist party's TV ad offends viewers

      I have been and am a supporter of public financing, notwithstanding
the many difficulties in designing a system that is likely to work well, in
line with my general view that anything that makes it easier for politicians
to raise money is presumptively good.  But there are problems, and one of
them is illustrated by this Reuters article about how one party in Germany
is using public funds.
 
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050907/od_nm/germany_anarchist
s_dc_1
 
 
          Best,
 
          Daniel Lowenstein
          UCLA Law School
          405 Hilgard
          Los Angeles, California 90095-1476
          310-825-5148