Harry, Feingold lives on Donna Drive. You live in Waunakee, or in the country? I prefer not to say much about where I live publicly, I still got some rather nasty people watching everything I post.
I've followed the campaign finance reform story for a while. It's pretty much a joke, but the bigger part of the joke is on the Republican side. If there was a Democratic Congress and a Democratic President, McCain-Feingold would have been enacted. With a Republican Congress and a Republican President, it will be dead, dead, dead.
I don't much care what the candidates say. I very much doubt that Gore would veto a campaign reform bill. I have no confidence on Bush on that front, given his own campaign spending record and the stated position of the Republican party.
Remember Feingold's reelection bid in '98? Here's a bit from a NYT story at the time.
Tally Is Mixed for Foe of Revising Campaign Finances, NYT 11/6/98.
He was not on the ballot, but Tuesday's election was a referendum of sorts on Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican who is chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee and a staunch foe of revising the campaign finance laws. The results were decidedly mixed.
Bad news for McConnell came from Wisconsin, where Russell Feingold, a Democrat, was re-elected. Feingold has been crusading to pass legislation to overhaul the campaign finance system, and he made the effort a central issue in his race against Rep. Mark Neumann. McConnell not only was the leader of efforts to kill the campaign finance bill this year, his committee had poured nearly $1 million into Wisconsin television commercials attacking Feingold.
"I'm coming your way Senator McConnell," Feingold declared on Tuesday at his re-election victory party in xxx, Wis., vowing to redouble his efforts to change the way elections are financed.
I can dig up the whole article and other coverage of McConnell's efforts in Wisconsin if you want. You think W would buck the congressional Republicans if elected? I doubt it very, very much.
Cheers, Dan. |
