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...last time Congress passed sweeping campaign-finance reform was in 1974, after the Watergate scandal. But the big bucks have long since crept back in. "Any campaign-finance reform law works for a period of time," says Anthony Corrado, a Colby College professor of government. "But it has to be revisited from time to time, or the money will find ways to get back into the system...
...last time Congress passed sweeping campaign-finance reform was in 1974, after the Watergate scandal. But the big bucks have long since crept back in. "Any campaign-finance reform law works for a period of time," says Anthony Corrado, a Colby College professor of government. "But it has to be revisited from time to time, or the money will find ways to get back into the system." If Shays-Meehan becomes law, it should help clean up the money game, at least until its reforms are slowly strangled by loopholes. That's a noble fate for a bill that...
...campaign finance reform bill will also cause power shifts in the American political system. For starters "it will roll things back to the type of campaign finance system that was always intended before the advent of soft money," explains Anthony Corrado, a Colby College professor who's written extensively on the history of campaign finance reform. Because they can't simply donate huge sums to the two parties, corporations, labor unions and multi-millionaires will now have a more difficult time buying unlimited influence...
...Second, the legislation would "encourage a shift away from the emphasis on television advertising that we've seen in the last two election cycles," Corrado believes. The millions of dollars in unregulated soft money enabled the two parties to spend lavishly on TV. They won't able to do as much of that under the new regulations, which also ban sham "issue" ads being broadcast on TV or radio just before an election, whose real purpose is to attack a candidate. But the bill allows corporations, labor unions and especially special interest groups to pump practically all the money they...
...seethed with venality and obsession. In the current book there is still enough corruption to go around, but not much narrative drive. Condon's Mafia greedsters now own 32% of what there is to own in the U.S., "only five points down on the Japanese." Old, frail, evil Don Corrado hits on the up-to- date notion of getting out of street crime and franchising it to black, Hispanic and Oriental gangs, thus achieving really big bucks and respectability. But instead of telling the story, Condon endlessly tells about it. Characters do not take on their own faces or voices...