FREE SPEECH FIGHT IN WASHINGTON STATE, PT II
Ryan Sager at the NYPost follows up on the McCain-Feingold-inspired crackdown on Seattle’s conservative talk radio:
THE campaign-finance-reform lobby has always claimed that it wants to regulate money, not speech.
So why are two talk-radio hosts being harassed by Washington state officials under local campaign-finance laws for their on-air support of an anti-tax ballot initiative?
And why did a judge back the government attack, ruling that on-air speech can be considered a campaign contribution — which leaves it subject to myriad rules and regulations?
Because, contrary to the reformers’ claims, money is speech, and speech is money. If you set out to regulate one, you will inevitably regulate the other.
Bingo.
Keep your eye on this.
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