We have previously and in great depth analyzed the ridiculousness on stilts that is that to which is whimsically referred as campaign finance "reform".
In the Lone Star State, the singular individualistic efforts of one Doctor James Leininger to assist in the unseating of anti-school choice pseudo-Republicans in the just concluded primary have led those targeted but electorally elusive Elephants to join with the always oppressive Donkeys to endeavor to preemptively prevent the likes of Leininger from ever again Speaking Freely.
As so documented in the eternally liberal Austin Chronicle, the publication for those River City-ites who find the Austin American-Statesman a bit too Starboard for their tastes.
To which we replied, via a Letter to the Editor:
Doctor James Leininger is allowed to expend his money in any manner he chooses, including in an effort to unseat elected officials dead set against freedom of choice for parents in their children's education.
If the likes of Representative Carter Casteel were indeed the "darling(s) of teachers' groups and lefty Capitol bloggers" for their opposition to vouchers, why did not these groups pony up to counter the actions of the good Doctor?
If their idea of locking children inside failed schools was such a good one, they would garner more financial support in the marketplace of ideas for their reelective efforts, a place in which they are obviously unable to compete and that they therefore instead seek to shut down via governmental fiat.
Campaign finance "reform" is the cowardly way out for politicians whose notions fail to garner ideological or fiscal support; rather than endeavor to convince the public of their superiority, these people choose instead to unConstitutionally shut down the opposition.
"Reformers", and five judicial activists on the Supreme Court, have now incepted the ludicrous dichotomy that getting naked to music for money is "free speech", but publicly airing disagreements with elected officials is not.
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Madame Thatcher, Please Do Not Bother |
Not exactly what our Founding Fathers had in mind whence the Constitution was quilled.
We shall not halt respiratory activity in the waiting for publication of the above therein, nor most certainly a response from the author of said piece of journalistic piffle.
And so it goes with the Texas Press Corps.
