{"id":373,"date":"2007-01-25T06:05:52","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T12:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2007\/01\/25\/close-to-good-news\/"},"modified":"2007-01-25T06:05:52","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T12:05:52","slug":"close-to-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Close To Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Miller at TvM quotes Bob Novak in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthvmachine.com\/?p=4156\"> noting some potential good news<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The provision, one of the more absurd consequences of the campaign finance reform craze of 2002, bars any mention of a candidate\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the group wanted to air ads in 2004 urging Wisconsinites to contact their senators \u2014 Democrats <strong>Russ Feingold<\/strong> and <strong>Herb Kohl<\/strong> \u2014 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The new court &#8211; which previously ratified parts of the speech rationing law &#8211; shows promise of reversing the previous court&#8217;s decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Which would be the just about the first positive fallout from the &#8217;04 elections we&#8217;d have seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s name or the broadcast of his image except by an FEC-regulated political committee. Groups such as Wisconsin Right to Life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}