[WestMALocals] Re: Bill Would Ban Third Party Congressional Campaigns

[Owen Broadhurst]

I have shortened the links to news articles cited:

Ballot Access News: *http://tinyurl.com/ajvhq*
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St. Louis Oracle: *http://tinyurl.com/7wm9y*
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On 2/8/06, Owen Broadhurst <owen.broadhurst at gmail.com> wrote:
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Owen Broadhurst <owen.broadhurst at gmail.com>
> Date: Feb 8, 2006 12:32 PM
> Subject: Bill Would Ban Third Party Congressional Campaigns
> To: needtoknow at green-rainbow.org, Discussion List for StateCom members <statecom-discuss at green-rainbow.org
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> On Feb 7, 2006, at 8:49 PM, Scott McLarty wrote:
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> > Ballot Access News
> > Edited by Richard Winger
> > http://ballot-access.org/2006/02/02/public-funding-of-congressional-
> > campaigns/
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> > Public Funding of Congressional Campaigns
> > February 2nd, 2006
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> > Congressman David Obey's public funding of
> > congressional campaigns bill is HR 4694. Nominees
> > of parties that had  would get full public funding. Also,
> > independent candidates who had averaged 25% would
> > also get full public funding. All others would be
> > required to submit petitions signed by 10% of the
> > last vote cast, for partial funding; and 20%
> > petitions for full funding. Candidates not
> > qualifying for partial funding would be barred
> > from spending any privately raised money. The
> > co-sponsors are these 7 Democrats: Rosa DeLauro
> > of Connecticut, Barney Frank and James McGovern
> > of Massachusetts, Henry Waxman and Bob Filner of
> > California, Steve Israel of New York, and Tim
> > Ryan of Ohio.
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> > St. Louis Oracle (web log)
> > http://stloracle.blogspot.com/2006/02/bill-would-ban-3rd-party-
> > campaigns-for.html
> > Sunday, February 05, 2006
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> > Bill would ban 3rd-party campaigns for Congress
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