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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (100596)	5/8/2001 3:15:24 PM
From: flatsville	Respond to of 436258

>>>Until a means of funding political campaigns can be found outside of the spheres of business AND special interests, nothing is likely to change, IMO.<<< So true...and both parties are afraid...Reps more than Dems IMO. The last recent effort at campaign finance reform in my state got it's ass kicked pretty good. Recently I was invited to attend a party leadership advisory workshop type thing. At one point you couldn't tell who was trying to get who on board. As we sat their trying to rank issues and stratigize it became pretty clear that if we could effect campaign finance reform a lot of the other issues would take care of themselves in time. Some of us got pretty pissed, staged a minor mutiny and demanded they go back in to try to win this thing again and do it first. Some of these guys looked like they were gonna whiz their pants. They were still licking their wounds from the last battle with the Reps and the bigger money Dems. We'll see what happens.

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (100596)	5/8/2001 3:49:28 PM
From: Don Lloyd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

patron - ...Until a means of funding political campaigns can be found outside of the spheres of business AND special interests, nothing is likely to change, IMO. I couldn't disagree with you more. Campaign finance reform is a unprecedented self-serving fraud cooked up by the two major parties and the mainstream media. If existing laws were even partially enforced the biggest question of the last election would be how Gore could campaign from a jail cell. The problem is not financing, but rather the government's virtually unlimited power and ability to reward its friends and destroy its enemies. Regards, Don