Saturday, January 30, 2010

SEIU Is In The Business of Drowning Out Voices

Another good reason to use transparency rather than McCain-Feingold for reform

POSTED AT 2:20 PM ON JANUARY 29, 2010 BY ED MORRISSEY

In his State of the Union speech this week, Barack Obama bemoaned a Supreme Court decision that allowed corporations to spend their money on advertising in the final weeks of an election cycle and to spend as much money as they like doing so. Obama declared that it would mean a deluge of money that would drown out the voices of ordinary citizens. However, McCain-Feingold didn’t do anything to prevent that kind of a deluge, and one case in particular demonstrates how the money flows more dishonestly and with less transparency in a campaign-finance regulatory scheme.... http://hotair.com/archives/2010/01/29/another-good-reason-to-use-transparency-rather-than-mccain-feingold-for-reform/

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