Campaign finance reform proponents and opponents are following the race in Connecticut’s 4th Congressional District closely. The white-haired Mr. Shays, 63 years old, is close to Sen. John McCain, and the two collaborated on a 2002 campaign-finance law among other legislation.
The Central Penn Business Journal has this interesting editorial questioning if campaign finance reform is effective. The real problem in government isn’t too much money, but too much government. So long as government is allowed to usurp and exercise power beyond its constitutional limits to redistribute wealth, we will always have special interests trying to influence government, […]
The Austin Business Journal reports: TAB President Bill Hammond says the entire case was the result of an accounting error. “Six years of political persecution by Ronnie Earle has come to an end with a misdemeanor over a bookkeeping error,” says Hammond. ” Hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars that could have been used to […]