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...Cause has held that all newsletters, regardless of content, constitute "political matter." It claims mass mailings from Capitol Hill provide politicians added public exposure--at the public's expense. "Mass mailings do more to promote the re-election of a senator than merely to communicate," Common Cause attorney Ken Guido said in an interview last month. "Every time a newsletter is mailed, it serves as a detriment to any potential political challenger. It's pure promotion...
...Cause has filed in U.S. District Court a suit against the Postmaster General and Secretary of Treasury to have the court declare the franking privilege unconstitutional. The suit specifically seeks the wholesale elimination of section 3210 of the U.S. Code that provides for Congressional use of franked mail. Attorney Guido said a Common Cause win in court would disallow any free mailings by senators, newsletters and individual correspondence included. "We're not after the single piece of mail, but if the Senate wants to retain the frank for that kind of thing, it's going to have to rewrite...
Common Cause attorney Guido said the Senate's self-initiated restraints on newsletter content were "improvements," but "do not solve the fundamental problem of unfair privilege" in the use of the frank. Scott in his floor speech remarked that the lobby group's suit "seeks to stop completely and entirely this type of communication with constituents under the frank, although it is clearly part of our official duties under the Constitution as elected representatives of the people...
...have no choice but to oppose as vigorously as we can an attempt, in effect, by Common Cause to amend the Constitution, and make us something less than representatives of the American people," Scott said. In later response, Guido asked, "Why should the taxpayer bear the burden of all this propaganda...
Keynote speaker for this year's Model U.N. is Lincoln P. Bloomfield '41, professor of Political Science at MIT. Other speakers for the seminars are John Gibson, of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts, Guido Goldman '59, lecturer on Government, Walter Jones, professor of Political Science at Northeastern University, and Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor...