Former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission David Mason has an interesting post on the Center for Competitive Politics’ blog, “Defending Nancy Pelosi.” He writes:

I suppose Speaker Pelosi is partly at fault for buying into the “more ethical than thou” logic of progressive campaign finance rules.  She contributed to a climate that makes attacks such as this plausible by supporting legislation that would have mandated a political divorce by regulating family members’ involvement in campaigns.  Of course, if politicians’ families are such a corrupting force, perhaps we should go all the way, and just ban having them.