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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Election Law
This would be a bad move by the Supreme Court. We have enough influence already by special interest groups. If it changes and allows big business to directly enter the spere of influence of the electoral process it could change things as we know them forever.
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We have to go back, Kate!
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Personally, I like the idea of a limit on what can be spent during an election.
We have that here. It isn't perfect: the rest o fthe year political parties can spend what they like; but once an eection is called every last penny of a campaign (local and national) has to be counted. In my local election I was allowed to spend a little under £1000. That included 'nominal expenses': i.e if I use a supporters office for free in the evenings I have to work out what that would cost if I was having to pay for it and that gets written down and counted as an expense. It works the same way in each parliamentary seat as well, but with a higher limit ( I think it's about £30k, but I may be wrong on that). It does make you a lot more careful in spending during an election and it does go some way to levelling the electoral playing field a little.
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I too like the idea of putting limits on what candidates can spend. It only seems fair to me. Perhaps it would reduce all the negativity and allow candidates to explain what they plan on doing instead f simply bashing the opponent.
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We have to go back, Kate!
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It does make you much more careful in how you campaign. You have to be very selective in your strategy and use of resources.
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On the other hand, it may bring corporate support out in the open for public view, rather than the convoluted way money is now funneled into back door of campaigns.
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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
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The other thing I think would be good about limiting spending is that it may allow some of the other parties to enter the fray without the overwhelming smothering by the democrats and repblicans.
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