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the supreme court always rejected that argument money isn t speech. in the case that upheld contribution limits they struck down expenditure limits on the ground the ability to spend as much money as you can to deliver a message is fundamental. i was going to point out we spent the past two year with the left griping about this dark money going into these independent spending groups. they should be celebrating because this is an opening for more of the money to be distributed more widely to candidates without affecting that base limit. also to give more money to the political parties which is more accountable, also disclosed, and has potentially moderating influence. colin s last point is new. the political parties were disadvantaged by citizens united. both democrats and republicans are going to get much more money into their party organizations than they had previously. i think that is going to be good for american politics if the parties are more engaged. ....
Understand why chuck schumer is against free speech or free americans in a free country. how do you think this will allow you to sort of expand your freedom of expression, your freedom of spending your money around you know, how will you do things differently now under this law? because you can t as we put it up before, you can t give a lot of money to one candidate. you max out at the 2,300 level and then, you know, you can spread the money around to a lot more candidates. right? that s correct. you can support more candidates. you can support more parties. and more committees or pacs, which are essentially state parties. so it allows you to support more numbers. it involves the number of candidates and committees that you can support. it s not the base limit. shaun, thank you very much. shaun mccutcheon, at the center of this very controversial decision that some believe will lead to the ruination of the campaign finance system. you are on the other side of that, sir, obvio ....
Understand why chuck schumer is against free speech or free americans in a free country. how do you think this will allow you to sort of expand your freedom of expression, your freedom of spending your money around you know, how will you do things differently now under this law? because you can t as we put it up before, you can t give a lot of money to one candidate. you max out at the 2,300 level and then, you know, you can spread the money around to a lot more candidates. right? that s correct. you can support more candidates. you can support more parties. and more committees or pacs, which are essentially state parties. so it allows you to support more numbers. it involves the number of candidates and committees that you can support. it s not the base limit. shaun, thank you very much. shaun mccutcheon, at the center of this very controversial decision that some believe will lead to the ruination of the campaign finance system. you are on the other side of that, sir, obvio ....
United. that provided a blueprint of how to raise money outside the political party structure. so big money was back, just not inside the two-party system, only on the outside. and today we have yet another supreme court case with the potential of removing another barrier to campaign donations. the case is called mccutchen versus the ftc and it s a direct challenge to donation limits put in place nearly 40 years ago. let me explain the limits they re talking about. federal law limits the total amount you can contribute in a two-year election cycle. so no one individual can contribute more than $123,200 total to all candidates running for federal office 2013 and 2014. there s also a base limit of course in place which says an individual can t donate more than $2,600 directly to any one federal candidate during their campaign cycle primary in general. an important distinction. ....