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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jackhach who wrote (507352)	12/10/2003 3:53:38 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

LOL---you are a hoot. Every day on CNN and PMSBC we get Democrats day and night night and day, and even THEN WHO sponsored a DEM debate?? FOX DID! Now Kerry wants to control TV too: Kerry Asks FEC to Block NRA Channel SHARON THEIMER Associated Press WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry doesn't want to tune in to a National Rifle Association channel anytime soon. The Massachusetts senator sent Federal Election Commission Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub a letter Tuesday asking the commission to block any attempt by the NRA to get a media exemption to campaign finance rules. The gun-rights lobby is considering acquiring a television or radio outlet and seeking the same exemption from campaign finance rules that news organizations have. If the group won a media exemption, it would be free to say whatever it wanted about candidates at any time and spend unlimited amounts doing so. "We urge you to prevent the NRA from hijacking America's airwaves with the gun lobby's money," Kerry's letter said. "If the NRA has something to say, it can play by the rules, just like the millions of people in America who do every day." The NRA, financed in part with corporate money, is banned by the campaign finance law from running ads identifying federal candidates close to elections in states where they are on the ballot. It contends the rules violate free-speech rights, and is among several groups asking the Supreme Court to strike them down. bayarea.com