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To: tejek who wrote (4854)	5/10/2005 3:27:22 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 7936

As a matter of principle I hate it. As a practical matter it had no effect on me. I don't live in MD and I almost never get gas there. Tim

To: tejek who wrote (4854)	5/11/2005 7:46:11 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 7936

The Left Catches On By Ryan Sager Tech Central Station Something remarkable is happening as a Republican Congress and president move to crackdown on 527 groups like the MoveOn.org Voter Fund and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth: Liberals are realizing that something's fishy. Three years after the passage of McCain-Feingold (a.k.a. the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, a.k.a. the End of Free Speech As We Know It), a smattering of Democrats and liberal activists are slowly coming to the conclusion that maybe it wasn't such a good idea to let the government decide who can and cannot engage in political speech... ...Both parties signed onto McCain-Feingold because, at the time, each secretly believed it was getting one over on the other. Democrats held to an outdated notion that their party couldn't compete with the GOP at raising soft money (large, unregulated checks that the bill theoretically eliminated), and they miscalculated. Republicans knew they could raise circles around the Dems when it came to hard money (smaller, regulated checks that the bill left in tact), and they won the lottery. So, everyone was trying to "exploit it for their own partisan purposes," in Daschle's words. The Democrats were just incompetent exploiters... techcentralstation.com