This Times editorial speaks to issues surrounding Sen. Clinton’s confirmation hearings, in light of President Clinton’s fundraising efforts for his foundation and presidential library. The overarching principle should be prompt disclosure of the amount and source of all payments to any Clinton charity or to Mr. Clinton personally by any person or entity with a […]
Month: January 2009
Times: More Reform, Please
A Times editorial endorses more campaign finance reforms today. In its 2003 [McConnell] ruling, the Supreme Court declared that McCain-Feingold’s limits on soft money were a permissible means “to confine the ill effects of aggregated wealth on” national politics. The courts should reaffirm that well-reasoned decision — and Mr. Obama and Congress should get to […]
Publicity or “Propaganda” with Public Funds
This letter to the editor of the Post echoes some of what Karl Rove noted in his WSJ piece. The letter argues that [a] thoughtful study of the appropriate use of new technologies by the government to promote agendas seems to be in order. We need guidelines, and in my view those guidelines need to […]