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By krempasky Posted in FEC — Comments (0) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

The FEC today ruled that contributions solicited bundled and transferred by actblue to the john edwards presidential campaign were not eligible for federal matching funds. Good.

But more disturbing was the appearance of David All in the story. Now, I know David was still on the hill when we had our last FEC vs. Blogs fight - and I presume he was a supporter at the time (his boss sure was), although I don't recall specifically. And some might try to draw a parallel between that confrontation over free speech and this decision regarding contributions.

But this - this is far different.

David's trying to play the "everything good for the web is good" game - but he's wrong. Additional support for government funding of campaigns is deeply anti-freedom and free speech, and no one on our side ought to countenance any such thing.

There are a lot of places and times to make common cause with democrats, and specifically the online left. This is hardly one of them and instead puts the parochial interests of vehicles like slatecard (the sad quotes from abcpac are notably absent) far, far ahead of the notions of free elections that embrace competition as the foundation. Instead, he's chosen subsidy.