Bad Reform

McCain-Feingold Finance Reform is a bad law and needs to get struck down as unconstitutional.

As noted in McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, a United States Supreme Court ruling on the BCRA, the Act was designed to address two issues:

* The increased role of soft money in campaign financing, by prohibiting national political party committees from raising or spending any funds not subject to federal limits, even for state and local races or issue discussion;
* The proliferation of issue advocacy ads, by defining as "electioneering communications" broadcast ads that name a federal candidate within 30 days of a primary or caucus or 60 days of a general election, and prohibiting any such ad paid for by a corporation (including non-profit issue organizations such as Right to Life or the Environmental Defense Fund) or paid for by an unincorporated entity using any corporate or union funds.

This law is designed to shut people up. It is supposed to stop people from running commercials and announcements of dissent thirty days before an election.

This law flies in the face of what America is all about. I do not care that there could a lot of money spent on said commercials and announcements. It take money to do this.

It is a very progressive law.