Race on this? i mean, it s effectively the argument as the other side is doing it and to compete we have to do it too. how does it ever stop? the argument is it stops when you get politicians committed to passing reform, and the president has tried to get something through congress. the disclose act, which has been jammed up by republicans in the senate who don t won t let it through. it s not that the will is not there on the democratic side. it s just that there are not enough members to actually get anything done. the president is committed to reform, but if you are to just sit by and say i m for reform and then let the coke brothers just roll right over you, that would be stupid. when i read that the $500,000 donation will get you in a meeting with the president, there s one thing in having a grassroots advocacy network, and there s another in terms of soliciting donations, small, medium, and large, and there s decidedly another one when it seems like an auction sfwloosh it s