TheCoxwain
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Wed Sep-30-09 01:36 PM
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| Election finance question.. |
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The current law limits contributions $2000 per person/per candidate ..
But shouldnt that be restricted to the candidate from your constituency ... If a congressman/senator is running from a district I dont have my primary residency in - then I should not be allowed to contribute.
Big companies exploit this loophole in a bigway ... it is time to fix this.
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| Freddie Stubbs
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Wed Sep-30-09 01:39 PM
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| 1. Republicans attempted to push for this when McCain Feingold was debated |
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Edited on Wed Sep-30-09 01:40 PM by Freddie Stubbs
The biggest opponents of this idea were African-American Democrats, who objected on the basis that their constituents were mostly poor, therefore necessitating them to raise money from outside of their districts.
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| TheCoxwain
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Wed Sep-30-09 01:42 PM
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wouldnt have guessed in a millions years.
So the law of unintended consequences comes to bite us in the ass.
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