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Article: Prof. Smith Goes to Washington.(controversial member of the Federal Election Commission, Bradley A. Smith)(Interview)
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- Reason
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- July 1, 2001
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And proposes an end to campaign finance laws
The campaign finance reform establishment went absolutely insane in the spring of 2000. That's when Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Trent Lott (R-Miss.) worked a deal to persuade President Bill Clinton to nominate Bradley A. Smith, a professor of law at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, to the Federal Election Commission. (In exchange for the Smith nomination, the senators guaranteed a vote on 16 Clinton appointees to the federal bench.)
Vice president and presidential candidate Al Gore-remember him?-took time out from scaring senior citizens about losing Medicare to promptly declare Smith "unfit for ...