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Originally posted by HarmlessRabbit
I am a democrat, and I have never claimed this. Perhaps you have a source?
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My use of the term "Democrats" in my posts would have been better stated as "Democratic Leadership". It was done constantly on the news programs when there was a focus on how these "new" Democratic groups (The Media Fund, Americans Coming Together, Move On, etc) were circumventing the campaign finance reform laws.
I am certainly not saying the Republican Party is innocent in 527 group abuse but am particularly annoyed by the acceptance of a blatant effort to get around the McCain Feingold Act which so many "leaders" trumpeted their support for. While many politicians have been forced through public pressure to disband the 527 organizations they created in the past to support their reelection, these major organizations are quietly being accepted by the DNC and the Kerry campaign.
I have no doubt that the RNC will do the same thing should their complaint with the FEC about these groups be dismissed or it becomes politically expedient for them. And when it happens I will gladly denounce the practice. The failure to denounce these groups will only serve to allow them to multiply.
http://www.nrsc.org/nrscweb/daschle_...rticle59.shtml
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Reformists' high hopes in 2002
Certainly as the Senate was voting on the McCain-Feingold law, Democratic senators voiced the highest of hopes for a new era of reform. Congress needed to act, Democrats said, because big money was corrupting the political process.
“The American people have become almost numb to these kinds of staggering figures, and they have come to expect fund-raising records to be broken with each election cycle,” Kerry said on March 22, 2002, during the debate over McCain-Feingold. “What is far worse for our democracy is that the public also believes that this money buys access and influence that average citizens don't have.... We can't go on leaving our citizens with the impression that the only kind of influence left in American politics is the kind you wield with a checkbook.”
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