RNC wants officials to ban partisan `soft money' spending by outside group

[Purveyor]

The Republican National Committee wants federal election officials to block partisan interest groups from spending big corporate, union and personal donations on get-out-the-vote drives in the presidential race.

The RNC was sending a letter Tuesday to the Federal Election Commission urging it to reject a request by a Republican-leaning group for approval of its plan to spend such "soft money" on voter drives to help re-elect President Bush.

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The RNC asked Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe on Monday to join in signing the letter, and planned to wait until Tuesday afternoon for his response before sending its letter to the commission.

McAuliffe sent RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie a response letter Monday making his own request. He asked Gillespie to urge the FEC to force various Republican-leaning groups to identify their donors and to join him in calling for a commission investigation examining whether the Bush campaign was coordinating activities with groups run by a conservative activist. That would help "create an open and fair system," he wrote.


Full AP article with much more detail

[jpgray]

1. This is a reaction to MoveOn, the second in what will be a long series(nt)

[KissMyAsscroft]

2. "Play Fair!!!" -RNC

*while RNC picks up sharp rock to bludgeon you with*

[dave29]

3. RNC and DNC

can both suck on it. I hold both of them directly responsible for making me the cynical SOB I am today.

[fob]

4. Did I read that right?

The RNC was sending a letter Tuesday to the Federal Election Commission urging it to reject a request by a Republican-leaning group for approval of its plan to spend such "soft money" on voter drives to help re-elect President Bush

And Terry sent a letter asking the FEC to ALSO reject a request by a Republican-leaning group for approval of its plan to spend such "soft money" on voter drives to help re-elect President Bush.

If not, he should have.

[patdem]

5. The 'Meet-Up' of WI had bush* with 11 members and 'teenage vampires'

with 12 members...LOL...guess the 'grassroots' are not working for the repukes...LOL...LOL...:bounce:

[0rganism]

12. Difference is, those 11 repuke members ponied up $10000 each

Well, maybe they did.

Grass roots are irrelevant to the rethugs. They're all about the big donors. You probably won't find a less republican city than Portland, but that didn't stop bush* from taking his usual dog&pony show through town to rake in a cool million in campaign donations: $2000 each from 500 high-rolling donors.

Never mind that there was a gargantuan demonstration outside the site of this shenanigan, never mind that robocops had to bust heads in the "free speech zone", never mind that it cost the city half a million bucks just to let the pigfucker roll into town. At the end of the day, money talks louder than the best intentions.

[Democat]

13. Money is everything to Bush and his buddies

They don't care about America, they care about money and power.

[AlinPA]

6. What? RNC rejecting a republican group's spending to have

Bush re-selected? I don't get it.

[David__77]

7. It's a calculated ploy, of course.

They're picking a GOP group in order to appear "even-handed." I would not be surprised if it were a pre-planned ruse. This is aimed at Democratic efforts, naturally.

[mrdmk]

8. That is not all

This group has used corporate and union funds to get the partisan get the votes out. This may be illegal according to some watch dog groups. No sacrafice here, just a ploy.

[Democat]

11. They want to bring down Move On - that's all this is

Their right wing groups bring in $5 and Move on brings in $5,000,000. That's the trick here.

Don't fall for it, Democrats.

[DBoon]

9. Can't spend money to get voters out

That would be terrible, it would be so ... uhmmm... democratic.

[proud patriot]

10. What a bunch of whiners

Besides that would be unconstitutional .