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Irony is that Congress could just pass a law providing the funds to run a campaign and ban lobbying.
by nxzero 11y ago
Irony is that Congress could just pass a law providing the funds to run a campaign and ban lobbying.
- shwouchk 11y agoRight, and who says who is eligible to run a campaign?
- nxzero 11y agoAre you asking how it who be decided who gets the money? I would suggest opening it up to both public debate and research; meaning we would need to learn what works best, and very possible there maybe no single right solution; for examples, cities and non-city area are different in my opinion.
- bmelton 11y agoWell, no, they probably can't. Under Citizens United and FEC v McCutcheon, the idea of banning lobbying (at least via SuperPac) is a non-starter with the courts. That may have changed with Scalia's passage, but under current precedent, you can't ban it, whether or not you replace it with something else for the party insiders.