Feingold asks hopefuls to limit spending

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Some Democrats may out of finance cap

By CRAIG GILBERT
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Last Updated: Nov. 7, 2003

Washington - Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold called on Democratic candidates Friday to honor spending limits during the presidential primaries.

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But Feingold said that if Dean or other Democrats opt out in order to be more competitive against Bush, they should at least honor the $45 million cap against their Democratic competitors and stay within the limit until there's a "presumptive nominee."

Several advocacy groups that support campaign reforms made a similar appeal Friday.

"That would at least demonstrate that the decision to opt out is prompted by the president's unprecedented fund raising and not by a desire to overwhelm those Democratic candidates who choose to stay within the public financing system," Feingold said in a statement he issued Friday after getting questions on the subject.

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Feingold has not endorsed a presidential candidate and said he doesn't expect to.

"I think Governor Dean is an excellent candidate and so are a number of others," Feingold said. "I want to see if we can avoid a competitive race to the bottom when it comes to this fund-raising stuff."

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[wuushew]

1. I appreciate the sentiment but...

he better damn well have sent the same message to President(200 million) Bush.

[Cha]

2. Feingold Feingold Feingold! We want to support

our candidate without "limits"...We The People want to be able to compete with the republican big money lie machine... cost money to get the truth out there!

[KittyWampus]

Funny, The First Sentence Says "Primaries"

And Junior isn't in the Democratic PRIMARIES.

[Cha]

6. It doesn't matter....it still costs money to get the "truth"

out there! And in the end it's all about running against bush.

[funkyflathead]

3. Uh that's nice Russ but the Buscho Money Machine has tons o greenbacks

And we need all the money we can to combat the Shrubs lies.

Nice but won't work. Repukes spend hot and heavy.

[mot78]

4. I like Feingold, and I think he has a great political future, but

we real to be realistic. There's no way we can crush the Rove/Limbaugh/Coulter/Tweaty/O'Reilly/Freeper machine without money.


Hey lurking Freepers:

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This money's going to a Donkey now! Get used to it! We have the power to unseat *, and RimJob can't do shit!

[pasadenaboy]

5. Feingold is right

We need to get out of public funding because of Bush. All candidate should honor the cap until a candidate is decided on.

We all wish we had meaningful public financing. We should at least hold to the principles of ideas rather than money deciding policy within our own party ( I know all the examples of when we don't, I'm just saying its the right thing to do.