The RNC Throws A Pie In John McCain's Face
Marc Ambinder
13 Nov 2008 12:42 pm
Nine days after the election, the Republican National Committee is no longer interested in being friends with their nominee.
They've filed suit today in courts in Louisiana and Washington, D.C. claiming that the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)'s ban on soft money donations to parties is unconstitutional.
This isn't one of those arcane debates.
Republican activists, donors, state party chairs, national committee men and women HATED the soft money ban because they (a) well, many of them thought it was unconstitutional but (b) more prosaically, they worried it would give an energized Democratic Party an edge in fundraising and (c) even more pragmatically, the party funded a lot of its stuff with soft money and always had an edge over Democrats. At the time, the RNC's hard dollar donate-by-mail lists were the pride of the industry, but Howard Dean was quickly transforming the campaign finance landscape for Democrats.
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