Close To Good News
By Mitch Berg
Gary Miller at TvM quotes Bob Novak in noting some potential good news:
The provision, one of the more absurd consequences of the campaign finance reform craze of 2002, bars any mention of a candidate’s name or the broadcast of his image except by an FEC-regulated political committee. Groups such as Wisconsin Right to Life are barred from buying ads mentioning them.
In this case, the group wanted to air ads in 2004 urging Wisconsinites to contact their senators — Democrats Russ Feingold and Herb Kohl — to tell them to support judicial confirmations. But Feingold was up for re-election, therefore campaign law shielded him from being mentioned on television by any group that does not follow FEC regulations for gathering contributions and filing disclosure forms.
The new court – which previously ratified parts of the speech rationing law – shows promise of reversing the previous court’s decisions.
Which would be the just about the first positive fallout from the ’04 elections we’d have seen.
