GOD BLESS THE FUNCTIONARIES :

FEC OKs Some Soft Money Exemptions (ASSOCIATED PRESS, June 20, 2002)

Setting the rules for fund raising under the nation's new campaign finance law, the Federal Election Commission is applying a ban on lawmakers' raising of large corporate and uniondonations so narrowly that even its top lawyer warned it would be easy to evade.

With one Democratic member joining three Republicans, the Federal Election Commission voted 4-1 late Wednesday that the only way a federal candidate or officeholder could violate the ban on raising soft money that takes effect in November would be by explicitly asking for such contributions.

It's a sad day when bureaucrats have to save us from the anticonstitutional actions of Congress and the President. Posted by Orrin Judd at June 20, 2002 7:43 AM