{"id":6216,"date":"2010-06-29T16:55:14","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T21:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6216"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:03:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:03:16","slug":"ban-on-soft-money-reaffirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/06\/29\/ban-on-soft-money-reaffirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban on &#8220;soft money&#8221; reaffirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6217\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/political-contributions-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"political contributions\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/political-contributions-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/political-contributions.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 105px) 100vw, 105px\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/\">Supreme Court<\/a> has <a title=\"reaffirmed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/06\/29\/AR2010062901580.html\" target=\"_blank\">reaffirmed<\/a> the\u00a0ban on political parties being able to raise unlimited amounts of &#8220;soft money&#8221; contributions, despite the high court&#8217;s ruling in January which removed restrictions on corporate and union spending in federal elections.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gop.com\/\">Republic Party<\/a> had appealed to the court to undo the ban.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/\">Political science<\/a> Professor <a title=\"Graham Wilson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/people\/faculty\/professorgrahamwilson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Wilson<\/a>, author of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Business-Politics-Comparative-Introduction-3rd\/dp\/1889119881\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1278090831&amp;sr=8-1\"><em>Business and Politics<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; says whether soft money was really used as originally intended for &#8220;party building&#8221; rather than helping candidates, it&#8217;s reasonable to presume that corruption could be linked to soft money contributions.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBut the GOP is right to say that if you allow unfettered spending by corporations and ban soft money contributions to political parties, you are going to disadvantage parties and have more of the action coming from special interests.\u00a0 Whether that is good for democracy can be questioned.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Graham Wilson, 617-353-2540, <a href=\"mailto:gkwilson@bu.edu\">gkwilson@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has reaffirmed the\u00a0ban on political parties being able to raise unlimited amounts of &#8220;soft money&#8221; contributions, despite the high court&#8217;s ruling in January which removed restrictions on corporate and union spending in federal elections.\u00a0 The Republic Party had appealed to the court to undo the ban.\u00a0 Political science Professor Graham Wilson, author [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[3278,3220,3151,2842,2845,3263,2892,3294,3293,3262,533],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6216"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7681,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6216\/revisions\/7681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}