McCain-Feingold II: Its Déjà Vu All Over Again
- By Robert Kelner
- Special to Roll Call
- Feb. 28, 2005, Midnight
Throughout the debate over the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, critics warned that instead of reducing the role of money in politics, it would simply divert million-dollar contributions from broad-based political parties to special interest groups. They warned as well that, once outside the regulated domain of the parties, those contributions would disappear from public scrutiny.
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