1. Bush has indicated he would not consider backing legislation to bar the unregulated campaign contributions known as soft money unless it contained such provisions. 2. Last weekend, both campaigns struck an agreement to stop using unregulated campaign funds. 3. Lawmakers would do well to note that American democracy is also being attacked from within by a poisonous system of unregulated campaign donations. 4. Lazio has attacked Clinton for raising soft money, largely unregulated campaign funds raised by political committees, to promote her candidacy indirectly. 5. Still, the most striking exchanges came during a discussion of unregulated campaign contributions known as soft money, when Gore posed his challenge to Bradley. 6. They overwhelmingly opposed a ban on the kind of largely unregulated campaign contributions known as soft money. 7. With unregulated campaign donations, everybody gets tainted, and the entire process is diminished as a result. 8. Since then, Clinton and Lazio made a deal prohibiting their respective political parties from using unregulated campaign donations to purchase TV and radio ads to boost their candidacies. |
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