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Last November during Election day, you could almost hear the collective groan emanating from Washington. In one of the most quiet--yet closely watched--races from around the country, Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wisc.), who gave a speech at the ARCO Forum last night, defeated Republican Mark Neumann by a hair, 51 to 49 percent...
...chests and PAC money, staunchly refuse to change it. Among these is hawkish Sen. Mitch McConnel (R-KY), head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. As the dispenser of funds for Republican candidates across the country, the anti-reform McConnell took money away from Republicans who supported McCain-Feingold, like Washingtonian Linda Smith (who lost her Senate race), and gave them to candidates who could take down his political enemies. Private Enemy No. 1 for McConnell is--you guessed it--Russell Feingold. Neumann's campaign, funded by McConnell's committee and others, promptly used the money it received...
...reform. The bane of the Capital Hill establishment. Two years ago, Feingold, along with senior Sen. John McCain (R-Az.), introduced a remarkable piece of legislation, meant to effectively abolish the corrupt and undemocratic system of campaign finance. The McCain-Feingold Bill would limit Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions and ban "soft money," the unlimited contributions to political parties which are then diverted to individual campaigns. For the last two years, however, McCain-Feingold has been ignored by the United States Congress, left to languish in some subcommittee...
That is why last week's race so important. Feingold and McCain have tirelessly worked to spread the message, saying, "We can change the system, if you help us." And they have. Earlier last year two House members, Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) and Martin Meehan (D-Mass.), brought up their own campaign-finance reform bill. While many members of Congress dismissed the legislation, everyone was watching as the bill made its way to the House floor. It passed...
Soft money contributions are "making a mockery of the principle of one man, one vote," Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wisc.), told a crowd of over 100 last night in a speech urging campaign finance reform...