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By krempasky Posted in FEC — Comments (8) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

As more groups weigh in before tomorrow's deadline, I'll keep updating this post with as many comments as I can get a hold of. They make for interesting reading - especially the tensions between the different organizations and viewpoints. We'll host the .pdf files as well as html versions to encourage discussion.

• The Online Coalition, on behalf of bloggers, decidely anti-regulation. Includes a request for the media exemption for bloggers:
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• Institute for Politics, Democracy, & the Internet, George Washington University. Advocates broad reform of campaign finance rules, much of which cannot be done without Congress. Strongly opposes blanket media exemption for bloggers:
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• Center for Individual Freedom, generally anti-regulatory, raises good concerns about definitions and restrictions on email communications:
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• Bob Bauer, Perkins-Coie, the FEC has choices, they need to regulate as little as possible, their current NPRM uneccesarily complicates, well - everything. Also, the Commission should issue a Statement of Policy that would express its deregulative commitment:
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• Democracy21, Campaign Legal Center, and the Center for Responsive Politics, arguably the most important comment submitted to the FEC, they make attempt to appear pro-blogger, but with many caveats:
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• Joe Birkenstock, practicing Democratic election attorney, largely focuses on disclaimer requirements:
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• Markos Moulitsas, Matt Stoller, & Duncan Black, an outstanding comment authored by Adam Bonin that took some extra time to respond specifically to some of the reformers' filings:
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• English First, I admit I haven't had a chance to read their comment yet, please weigh in on the comment thread:
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• OMB Watch, comments authored by former FEC Commissioner Karl Sandstrom:
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• Center for Democracy & Technology, Clearly John Morris and Leslie Harris hate me since they filed a 49-page comment. Needless to say, I've not read it - although I predict they accurately reflect their very sensible and pro-freedom statement of principles:
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• Professor Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit. "I can imagine few more effective ways of diminishing public regard for the political process than declaring unfettered political speech the domain of a narrow guild of favored professionals.":
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• Gun Owners of America:
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• Henry Copeland, BlogAds.com, Henry provides some crucial data to the discussion:
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• James Madison Center for Free Speech, as the name would imply:
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• Republican National Committee, I'm very interested to read the RNC's take, but have not had the chance:
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• BCRA Co-Sponsors, And now come the reformers themselves:
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