LIBERTY: Air America is a campaign finance law end run

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http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20061025-092624-1737r.htm

Special treatment for Air America
By John R. Lott Jr. and Bradley A. Smith
Published October 26, 2006

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When is a campaign donation not a campaign donation? Apparently if you spend the money to run a radio program instead of paying for campaign ads that run on that same program. Just look at Air America. With $41 million in losses since 2004, and $9.8 million owed just to Robert Glaser, RealNetworks chairman, Democrats who bankrolled this “company” weren’t so much investors as campaign contributors. The losses are seen as simple business ineptitude,but Air America effectively, and perhaps intentionally, cleverly avoided the campaign finance limits which Democrats had worked so hard to pass.

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First Amendment? Gone. Courtesy of McCain Feingold.

Keep all that dirty money out of campaigns. Except for incumbents and friends of incumbents.

My rule: No vote for incumbents. No votes for Big Gubamint candidates. Small Government! All the time; no exceptions.

2 Responses to LIBERTY: Air America is a campaign finance law end run

  1. reinkefj's avatar reinkefj says:

    I think this is a hoot! I guess “Mia” thinks I’m a an R or a a Fox lover. Ahh, how wrong she is. But, I do think that keeping money out of politics is as likely as keeping drugs out of prison. See in a Libertarian America, there would be very few laws and lots of liberty for everyone!

    Having disposed of that, I would no more call “Mia” an idiot for disagreeing with me. Her behavior may be “boorish”, but no reason to insult all idiots.

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  2. Mia's avatar Mia says:

    you’re an idiot. what do you call Fox News? talk about an end around the campaign finance laws.

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