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Thursday, September 22, 2005
Political Bloggers Reach the FEC
The AP's Donna Cassata reports that with the prospect of new regulations hanging in the air, political bloggers of all ideological stripes are taking their case to be exempted to the FEC.
Political bloggers who offer diverse views on Republicans and Democrats, war and peace argued on Thursday that they should be free of government regulation.Earlier this month FEC Commissioner David Mason appeared quite loath to begin regulating political blogs. Check out the full Mason interview for more information.
The notion was echoed by some members of the government agency trying to write rules covering the Internet's reach in political campaigns.
Amid the explosion of political activity on the Internet, a federal court has instructed the six-member Federal Election Commission to draw up regulations that would extend the nation's campaign finance and spending limits to the Web.
The FEC, in its initial rules, had exempted the Internet.
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