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March 30, 2006BELTWAY BLOGROLL
BillBlast: A Key Vote On Campaign Finance
The Club For Growth is no fan of moves to regulate so-called 527 groups under campaign finance regulation. To that end, the group will count senators' votes on that issue toward the rankings it compiles based on key votes.
Andy Roth explained the decision at the group's blog, focusing on one Senate bill in particular, S. 1053, that would impose new rules on political ads on television and radio. Current exempts political action committees from the rules, but the bill would apply them to 527s, which get their name from the section of the tax code that defines them.
"S. 1053 is an unprecedented proposal that would ban any such ads placed anywhere, at any time, in any kind of medium by a 527 group, unless sponsored by a highly regulated PAC," he wrote. "If passed, money currently donated to 527s will instead flow to other nonprofit groups and business associations, where it will be hidden from the public disclosure currently mandated for 527 groups."
Blog readers should expect to see more such key-vote alerts in the future. "Going forward, I'm posting all of our key-vote alerts on the club's blog so that more of our readers get a chance to see them and to more clearly understand our position on the issues," Roth wrote in a separate post. "We did it every once in a while in the past, but I want to do it regularly going forward."
That's a great use of the blogosphere, and it is one that more groups should imitate. Bloggers could do it, too, by starting their own key-vote systems to grade lawmakers and inform the grassroots.
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