(UPI) FEC ruling could take down Democrats

[JoeKSimmons]

By MARIE HORRIGAN, UPI Deputy Americas Editor

WASHINGTON, March 12 (UPI) -- Democratic congressional leadership has rolled out a strikingly unified front in support of presumed presidential nominee John Kerry, but a pending ruling with the Federal Election Commission could devastate a significant source of their funding.

Organizations known as 527s have emerged as soft money dumping grounds, allowing candidates to circumnavigate hard limits on the amount of money individuals, corporations and unions can donate to their campaigns. The rules governing 527s, established in the wake of the far-reaching McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform, have not been fully worked out, and thus far Democrats have been using the uncertainty to their advantage.
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Sen. Edward Kennedy, a strong supporter of his fellow Massachusetts senator, told UPI the campaign would not be affected by the actions of such groups. "We don't have anything to do with them," Kennedy said Thursday.

But aside from the political fallout of the organizations, losing that valuable source of funding could be catastrophic for the Kerry campaign, Weiss said.

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Fat chance...GWB is going down. Bank on it!

[Just Me]

1. That's okay,..."the people" will find a way,...

,...and as a registered "independent" who is a member of Moveon, among numerous other organizations,...and who embraces all people who pursue shared values of social justice and equality regardless of any "affiliation",...

WE WILL FIND A WAY TO EXPRESS OUR COMMON VALUES!!!

Ahem,...and,...that is all I have to say,...about THAT! :D

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. We'll see about that. I posted in "GD" 2004 Primary" that......

McCain/Feingold was a horrible mistake and I was truly sorry to see that the Supreme Court did not overturn it. CFR is a piece of Cow Manure!

:puke:

[alcuno]

3. I believe there are 3 Democrats and 3 Republicans on the commission.

I don't know their rules, but it seems that they'd need 4 to 2 in order to do anything. The Chairman is a Republican and he was on CSPAN the other day. He didn't sound eager to reform the rules.

[burrowowl]

6. Remember

The U$ eagle has 2 rightwings.
The left wing disappeared decades ago.

[jenk]

4. McCain-Feingold sucks, how could Russ do this to us?

[Kagemusha]

5. What a pile of crap.

"Their" campaign? Cicumvent? Evade?

Pretty damn convinced no one could possibly want Bush gone except the Democratic Party.