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To: Lane3 who wrote (43819)	2/8/2002 4:12:48 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 82486

There are three ways of dealing with this. The first is GOP partisan--to complain that Moore is partisan and that the Dems are just as bad or worse. The second is Dem partisan, to try to bring down the Administration in payback for the impeachment excesses. The third is to take a statesmanship approach--to look at the "game" and the Enron lessons to see if there's a better way to "play" it. I think that Enron is more of an issue of lax accounting then it is a campaign finance reform issue. If it is looked at as a campaign finance issue then I think it cuts both parties as they both received big contributions from Enron, but it doesn't appear that Enron received any unusual favors for its contributions. Turning more directly to the campaign finance issue, I'm not sure what type of improvement I would support except for more openness on contributions to parties and candidates. I would be opposed to many of the speech restrictions that are floated as campaign finance reform ideas. I am particularly opposed to attempts to outlaw issue advocacy statements near an election. I would consider that a direct and obvious violation of 1st amendment rights. Tim

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