since 1974 every campaign finance law and proposed reform has shared a common goal....to restrict the speech and press rights of every "citizen" except those employed as editors, reporters and talking heads! the mainstream media corporations support campaign finance reform because their editorial endorsements and news stories are "excluded" from the definitions of "contribution" and "expenditure"! campaign finance reforms have replaced a "free press" with a "state approved" press and have replaced "enumerated inalienable rights" with "priveleges" exercised through collectives called political action committees! all the whining about campaign spending is designed to promote new campaign finance laws because the mainstream media does not want to share political influence with 527 corporations! wake up america contact your congresman and dictate the terms of their reelection or their defeat: congressman you will introduce or cosponsor and then pass legislation that restores the equal "speech and press rights" of "living persons" your constituents or you will be replaced with someone who will uphold their oath!

where in the constitution is the authority to make political coordination a crime and by what logic do campaign laws make it one? amendment 1: “congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” on wikipedia lookup the words: • “assembly”: “freedom of assembly, the individual right to come together and collectively express, promote, pursue and defend common interests. • “association”: “voluntary associations, groups of individuals who voluntarily enter into an agreement to accomplish a purpose.” 501(c) non-profit organization is given as an example. • “coordination”: “coordination is the act of coordinating, making different people or things work together for a goal or effect to fulfill desired goals in an organization. coordination is a managerial function in which different activities of the business are properly adjusted and interlinked.” in sports the lack of coordination leads to lost games. in orchestras the lack of coordination results in dissonance. choreography without coordination lacks grace. lack of coordination in business results in lost profits. oh well, i guess uncoordinated political campaigns are good training for political candidates that want to work in our dysfunctional government. remember the rhyme we were taught as kids: “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” well the only thing political campaigns produce is communications for mass distribution. despite the fact the 1st amendment forbids congress from writing laws that abridge our freedoms of speech, press and assembly, unconstitutional campaign laws abridge all three. americans spend 7 billion a year on potato chips. is 8 billion for elections really too much money?

corruption breeds corruption: feca crowns the state approved press your story should include the influence of the commercial media. both corporate media and political campaigns produce communications for distribution to the masses. if the media carried political ads for free it would eliminate the need for most of the money in politics. following reports of serious financial abuses in the 1972 presidential campaign, congress amended the feca in 1974 to set limits on contributions by individuals, political parties and pacs. the following serious abuse was not reported because the 4th estate was the abuser. some of our nation’s largest newspapers found themselves in federal court loosing antitrust suits which accused them of purchasing financially troubled newspapers and then pretending to compete with them while rigging prices. the newspaper preservation act was working its way through congress and was designed to grant antitrust relief to the affected newspapers. richard nixon and his, attorney general, were on record as strongly opposed to the passage of the newspaper preservation act. a newspaper executive wrote a letter to president nixon as his re-election approached. the letter reminded president nixon that the nation’s largest newspaper chains published in those states that had the largest number of electoral votes. the carefully worded letter reminded president nixon that it could be difficult to be re-elected without their editorial support. president nixon reversed his position and used his political skills to convince congress to pass the newspaper preservation act. [see pgs.95-99] the media monopoly 5th edition paperback by professor ben hbagdikian. the newly minted campaign laws should have chastised the 4th estate as well as nixon? instead the federal election campaign reform act exempted them and created the ‘state approved press: the following reference to the press exemption is excerpted from a letter by senator mitch mcconnell section 431(9)(b)(i) makes a distinction where there is no real difference: the media is extremely powerful by any measure, a "special interest" by any definition, and heavily engaged in the "issue advocacy" and "independent expenditure" realms of political persuasion that most editorial boards find so objectionable when anyone other than a media outlet engages in it. to illustrate the absurdity of this special exemption the media enjoys, i frequently cite as an example the fact that if the rnc bought nbc from ge the fec would regulate the evening news and, under the mccain-feingold "reform" bill, tom brokaw could not mention a candidate 60 days before an election. this is patently absurd. to restore the 'equal rights' of flesh and blood, the language of the press exemption should be modified to read: “the term expenditure does not include any news story, commentary, or editorial distributed by any citizen, citizens group, non-profit corporation, broadcasting station, newspaper, magazine, or other periodical publication.” also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/newspaper_preservation_act_of_1970