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Subject: Re: The Impact of Inventions
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Date: Thu, 2-Jul-87 14:11:21 EDT
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  Wonderful idea, I knew it had to have been tried ,and sure enough it has.
Seems that if you tell candidate X not to accept money from outside his/her
district that the folks from the outside just start their own group to get
their candidate elected.   Seems that they have this first amendment right
to say what they want.
  I still think it's a good idea, I would amendned it so that non district
support has to be pointed out.  Say if the TV ad was paid for by someone
far away then at the end of the ad a voice says "This ad was paid for from
contributions from out of district".  Of course people will find a way around
this, but maybe something along this line will help.
  One real problem is getting someone who knows the high (and often black,
sigh) art of Law Writing to do the first draft.  Then to try to pass it
somewhere large enought to test it, say San Francisco.

		||ugh Daniel
hugh@well.uucp hugh@hoptoad.uucp