In response to Senator McCain’s announcement late last week to push legislation to further regulate the speech of so-called “527” organizations (groups like the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and America Coming Together, which were active in the 2004 elections), the Center for Individual Freedom fired off another letter to the Senate’s chief “campaign finance reformer.”
CFIF’s letter is posted here.
In it, CFIF points out that Americans – particularly Conservatives – are outraged at McCain’s plans to further muzzle political speech. Indeed, such action is a slap in the face to the American people.
The letter reads, in part…
“Senator McCain, as the Senate’s chief ‘campaign finance reformer,’ you have an obligation to the American people to clearly state your intentions on [the issue of whether you will campaign for President within the limitations of the public financing system].” Introducing legislation to further silence political speech is not a direct answer. In fact, if it is your intention to abandon the limitations of the presidential public financing system, such action suggests even greater hypocrisy on your part. …
“With your stated intention to introduce legislation to ‘further clamp down on independent ‘527’ groups’ – ironically, organizations that you created through Congress’s passage of the McCain-Feingold legislation – are Americans to assume that the only people you wish to speak during election time are the candidates themselves?
May 15, 2007 at 9:14 pm
interesting article