Word: campaign
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...major mistake to believe that if you close the soft money loophole you solve the problems of campaign finance reform," Schmeltzer said. "A far reaching comprehensive reform that attacks all of the problems with our current system is needed...
BEDFORD, N.H.--Republican presidential candidate Senator John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) couldn't have known that the same day he had selected to take a hard line stand against soft money would turn out to be a record-shattering day for campaign fundraising...
Before a crowd of 300 Wednesday at the town hall here, McCain put forward his plan to reform the current campaign finance system, which he called "nothing less than an elaborate influence peddling scheme...
Later that day, in San Francisco, Texas Gov. George W. Bush announced that he had collected $36.2 million in campaign contributions--roughly six times as much as McCain, twice as much as Democratic frontrunner Vice President Al Gore '69 and more than any other presidential candidate in history has ever raised at this point in the election cycle...
Reforming the way in which candidates for public office raise money has become the central issue of McCain's campaign. And while McCain did not mention Bush by name in his speech, it is exactly Bush's kind of fundraising that supporters of campaign finance reform hope...