(November 22, 2014 at 5:43 pm)Heywood Wrote: In the internet age, it doesn't take a lot of money to produce a slick ad and get it seen by thousands of people. The internet has helped level the playing field in terms of candidates getting their messages out. What it hasn't done is made it easier to collect signatures to get on a ballot. I'm not sure why you think it does....but getting signatures requires physically going around and meeting people face to face.....the internet does not help with this.
And here, I thought I would never meet someone on the internet who never heard of internet petitions being a thing. Or, the fact that the White House famously operates one.
(November 22, 2014 at 2:58 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote: So if I like a candidate it becomes illegal for me to run down to Office Depot, buy some markers and poster board....write up a sign and put it up in my yard? Your plan to stop private money of any kind from influencing a political campaign is a plan to curtail my speech.
That's just how people show off what team they root for. Yard signs don't sway elections.
Now, if you go and get these materials to print large quantities of yard signs so you can distribute them to others, or to place large quantities around town, that's a problem, if you're using unlimited amounts of private money. That's no more a restriction of free speech than laws against public urination.
Quote:What would you have me do? Go down to some government agency wait in line, fill out 10 different forms, go to 8 different windows just to obtain some publicly financed markers and poster board? Eliminating private money from campaigns is not only ludicrous....it is impossible.
No, your ludicrous example has proven me wrong. Let's sell votes!
