Political Quotes

“I run these focus groups. I go to a civic club, a good government group, and I say, let me just ask all of you: Give me a show of hands if you see an ad run in the final 60 days before an election and the ad mentions a candidate's name, would you consider that a campaign ad? And it does not matter if the group is Republican, Democrat, nonpartisan, just about everybody, everybody will raise their hand. They think that is a campaign ad if it mentions a candidate's name. Then I say, okay, do not look at the person next to you, just answer the question: Do you think that if that group that runs that ad mentions the candidate's name, that they should come under the same rules and regulations as the candidates themselves, who also mention each other's names? And everybody raises their hands. And I say it is sad that that is all that this bill does and everybody talks about it being some infringement on your first amendment rights. It treats the groups exactly like it treats the candidates.”