Return fund raising plea to deter overspending
In response to your editorial on Nov. 10 regarding excessive political campaign spending, I offer the following.
For the past few years, I've returned these requests in the "postage paid" envelopes stating:
1) I am tired and weary of the months long barrage of your ads on TV, many of which are irritatingly abrasive to my brain.
2) When you pass legislation limiting campaign ads to a maximum of 30 days prior to the election, only then will I contribute to your campaign. For now, I refuse to add to the problem.
Providing more campaign money is not the answer.
Thomas Morris
Whitsett
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You had me nodding in agreement until your second point. I have to defer to some dead white guys on that issue.
"Congress shall make no law....abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press....".
Posted on December 31, 2006 8:36 AM
With the exception of one candidate making recorded phone calls and doing mailings to houses 3 months out, I think most campaigns in our area were pretty low key in '06.
With groups like the ones that the Pope family has in NC, they do a lot of indirect campaigning for GOP candidates. Most people outside of the triangle are unaware, but that family has quite a few conservative organizations, that fall under one umbrella. (and they raise money year-round)
They have over $50,000,000 that fuel the right-wing agenda, and this limits direct campaigning from candidates.
They NC GOP headquarters is named after the family, and as former U.S. Sen. Lauch Faircloth said in an interview this year: "Pope has done more to help the Republican Party than anyone I know of in the state."
Here are a few of the foundations that they oversee:
The John Locke Foundation
North Carolina Family Policy Council
American for Prosperity
The John William Pope Civitas Institute
N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law
Pope Political Inc
NC Education Alliance
Pope Center for Higher Education Policy
Carolina Journal
NC History Project
Posted on December 31, 2006 4:01 PM