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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (63983)	4/27/2006 1:24:02 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

>>>Until and unless we see public financing of political campaigns the idea of a major progressive shift in American politics is little more than a pipe dream.<<< As long as the courts equate money with speech, this will be impossible. 527's, or some other mechanism of injecting private money into politics will be found by the corporations and special interests. What would be required would be a redefinition of "free speech" by the Congress to explicitly exclude speech amplified by tons and tons of money for political purposes.