Thursday, August 29, 2002

GROUPS SEEK EXEMPTION FROM POLITICAL-AD LIMITS
You knew this was coming. The Sierra Club Foundation and the Alliance for Justice — an association of civil-rights, environmental, mental health, consumer, women's and children's advocacy groups — have asked the Federal Election Commission to exempt their organizations from the new campaign finance law.

The new campaign finance law is a crock because Congress can still shake down businesses and gauge taxpayers. The only thing this new law will do well is protect the jobs of incumbents. I’m certain the Supreme Court will declare certain provisions of the law to be unconstitutional. But if a bad law is going to be in effect, it had better apply to everyone.