By Matthew Vadum ——Bio and Archives--August 27, 2008
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“Having failed in its attempts to get our legal, factual and fully-supported ad off the air, Barack Obama’s campaign now wants to put our donors in prison for exercising their right to free speech…These over-the-top bullying tactics are reminiscent of the kind of censorship one would see in a Stalinist dictatorship, with the only difference being that those guys generally had to wait until they were in power to throw people who disagreed with them into jail.”By the way, presumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain isn’t much better on First Amendment issues. The Arizona senator has long been a fan of so-called campaign finance reform that limits free speech. But even though McCain hates the low tax group, the Club for Growth, which has been harshly critical of his policy positions, as far as I know he hasn’t tried to have the group or its backers prosecuted.
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Matthew Vadum, matthewvadum.blogspot.com, is an investigative reporter.
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