| A slim majority of candidates support outlawing soft money and nearly a majority support full public funding. |
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| Campaign finance reform means new rules on soft money, independent expenditures and political advertising. |
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| The Democrats' platform advocates a ban on political contributions known as soft money. |
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| In recent elections soft money has become a way for wealthy individuals to contribute large amounts of money to the political parties. |
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| We didn't have soft money, but we had ideas and we had vision and we had principles and we had things that attracted Americans to our banner. |
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| While national parties cannot take soft money, other entities set up by the national parties can. |
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| With McCain-Feingold, the campaign finance reform law, the national parties can no longer accept soft money. |
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| The law bans soft money, unrestricted donations to political parties from corporations and other interest groups. |
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| It now appears that parties may resume raising and spending soft money, at least for get-out-the-vote purposes. |
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| But, I also see the dramatic increase in the so-called soft money, that is the unlimited contributions. |
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| Opponents claim that soft money raised by political parties is not related to federal elections. |
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| First of all, the contribution that I received was hard money, not soft money, every expert will tell you that. |
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| That all gets corrupted when you have people floating around, giving the soft money and playing with both sides and that sort of thing. |
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| The parties will continue the trend towards more ideological sources as soft money is now off the table. |
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| But I don't know that eliminating the so-called soft money or carpet money allows us to have a level playing field. |
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| His idea of campaign finance reform is to ban soft money outright while removing all limits for personal contributions. |
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| I believe that both candidates should forego, forswear, soft money. |
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| Public faith in government was centermost in a recent decision by a federal appeals court in Seattle that upheld Alaska's curbs on soft money. |
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| Brown estimated that his group poured close to half a million dollars into the three races in hard and soft money. |
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| By the 2000 election both the Democratic and Republican parties raised and spent large amounts of soft money, each party raising close to a quarter of a million dollars. |
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| The law said that the national parties can't raise soft money. |
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| There was a lot of soft money that wasn't equity money in the film as well, such as tax credits and leaseback money. |
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| They contend such groups are circumventing campaign finance laws and funneling soft money into the federal elections. |
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| In the United States we have just seen the McCain initiative on soft money and hard money. |
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| The new restrictions on soft money and issue advocacy are not a panacea for the American political system. |
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| How are the soft money and issue advocacy restrictions likely to fare in court? |
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| The centrepiece of the new campaign finance law is a sharp restriction on soft money. |
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| Nevertheless, addressing soft money and issue advocacy is an important first step for reform. |
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| This article reviews the emergence of soft money and issue advocacy in the American campaign finance system, and the new legislative response. |
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| Opponents argued that the soft money and issue ad provisions of the BCRA are wholly in violation of the Constitution. |
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| One that acknowledges that my candidate's speech is mine, that hard money is fungible with soft money, and thus that both should be regulated the same way. |
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| Proponents consider the BCRA a significant step toward reducing corruption in politics by putting an end to soft money and restricting issue advertising. |
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| The second handicap relates to soft money. |
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| The ban on soft money will have an anticompetitive impact on future electoral outcomes. |
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| This enabled them to use unlimited individual, corporate and union soft money contributions to pay for electioneering ads in the ostensibly publicly funded presidential election. |
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| Effectively after the November 2002 Congressional elections, the national committees of the political parties, federal candidates and federal officeholders will be prohibited from raising, receiving or spending soft money. |
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| For background on party soft money financing, see Anthony Corrado, et al. |
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| The purpose of clear and transparent party finances is particularly important for political parties that are connected with underground organisations and soft money. |
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| Moreover, in response to the argument that the soft money ban will make it more difficult for candidates and parties to receive the funds they need to finance their campaigns, the law raises many of the hard money limits. |
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| Instead of tying this so-called soft money to party issues, however, parties often used it to support individual candidates, simply by advertising issues identified with particular candidates. |
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| The size of soft money contributions also soared. |
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| The same logic could be used to sustain limits on party soft money. |
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| The most constitutionally vulnerable component of the new soft money restrictions is the provision limiting party electioneering communications that go beyond express advocacy. |
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| The Bill would allow state and local parties to raise soft money, but only in amounts of pounds 6,250 or less. |
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| McConnell understood at the time that many GOP senators feared the end of soft money but were afraid of the negative publicity that opposing McCain's crusade would bring. |
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| Republicans, like those at a Senate hearing on the topic scheduled for March 10, are suddenly aghast that there's soft money being used to finance campaign activities. |
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| In 1998, he barely won reelection after he refused to accept soft money. |
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| From the beginning, opponents of increased campaign finance regulation knew that legislation purporting to reform the system by banning soft money would fail miserably. |
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| The White House is no longer being used as a reception facility for coffee klatches and other special events put together to woo soft money donors. |
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| The proposed Shays-Meehan bill would ban soft money or unlimited contributions to the national parties' coffers that are often used for voter mobilization and advertising. |
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