GOP rider would boost party spending
Source: POLITICO
Mitch McConnell plans to slip campaign cash rider in omnibus spending bill.
Senate Republicans plan to insert a provision into a must-pass government funding bill that would vastly expand the amount of cash that political parties could spend on candidates, multiple sources tell POLITICO.
The provision, which sources say is one of a few campaign-finance related riders being discussed in closed-door negotiations over a $1.15 trillion omnibus spending package, would eliminate caps on the amount of cash that parties may spend in coordination with their candidates.
Pushed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a longtime foe of campaign finance restrictions, the coordination rider represents the latest threat to the increasingly rickety set of rules created to restrict political fundraising and spending on elections.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/congress-campaign-finance-cash-rider-216220
I was just saying to my friend the other day I think it was, what America really needs is MORE money in politics.
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