McCain blasts Democrats’ funding

WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain threatened Wednesday to go to court to force the Federal Election Commission to crack down on mostly Democratic fund-raising groups called “527s,” which he said are circumventing campaign finance laws by using massive “soft money” contributions to run TV ads attacking President Bush.

One of those Democratic groups, the Media Fund, financed in part by billionaire George Soros and headed by former Clinton White House aide Harold Ickes, began airing a $5 million wave of anti-Bush television ads in 17 states Wednesday.

The six-member, bipartisan Federal Election Commission is scheduled to vote on May 13 on new regulations to restrict fund-raising by the 527 groups, which are named because they are organized under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code.

At a hearing Wednesday of the Senate Rules Committee to debate the role of the 527 groups, McCain, a Republican from Arizona who co-authored the 2002 campaign finance reform law that bears his name, voiced anger at what he said was a clear undermining of the original 1974 campaign finance law.

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time to rethink rash optimism. I love having a brain, it can be so fun to use sometimes!

in a moment.

We're smart. He won't be considered. He is, after all, the enemy, no matter how 'maverick'-like he is.

position. Duhhhh.

McCain threatens groups that are advancing progressive causes and you want him as the VP nominee? Anybody up for Nader/Feingold?

Okay. Thank goodness.

to hear the sarcasm over the computer.

I swear we are in bizarro world sometimes.

And I'm serious.


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learned to play the game and we are making sure that this auction for the Presidency is not won because one side runs out of money! They have been chortling for months about their huge money advantage, and now they want to stop us from the debate and getting our views, beliefs and words out! McCain for VP? My bowels twist at that thought! :puke:

awful painful thoughts LOL

I get so sick of all this bovine excrement from the Bush gang that sometimes I just have to go walking in the mountains to keep my blood pressure down and keep my stomach and other things from exploding! Right now, it is warm, with snow still on the mountains and so it is very peaceful! If this keeps up, I will be in shape, finally! Guess the gang is good for something!

It was a watered down version of the Kerry-Wellstone Clean Elections bill that got distorted big-time into doubling the amount of hard money you could donate - hardly McCain's intentions.

Kerry is doing everything he can to fight this BS loophole for this election, but he is basically on the same page as page as McCain for overhauling the campaign finance system.

McCain should definitely be picked as Kerry's running mate.:crazy: