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    <title>Open Left - McCain-Feingold</title>
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      <title>Forging A Signature Issue</title>
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      <description>From Horses Ass:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;table&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor=eeeeee&gt;&lt;div class="Title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.horsesass.org/?p=4839" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Well, so much for McCain/Feingold"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=5&gt;Well, so much for McCain/Feingold&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#xD;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="postByline"&gt;by &lt;a href="mailto:goldy@horsesass.org"&gt;Goldy&lt;/a&gt;, 05/12/2008, 4:35 PM&lt;/div&gt;	&#xD;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="postEntry"&gt;John McCain is coming to Bellevue tomorrow for a $33,100 per plate dinner. &amp;nbsp;No, that's not one of my frequent typos... it's &lt;em&gt;$33,100&lt;/em&gt; per plate. For that kind of money, I expect to eat my dinner off of John McCain's naked body (or preferably, his daughter Meghan's.)&#xD;&lt;p&gt;$33,100. Yet the federal contribution limit for 2008 remains $2,300 per person in each of the primary and general elections. So how does McCain get around this? According to &lt;a href="http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/davidpostman/McCain%20May%2013%20Bellevue%20Invite%20and%20RSVP.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;the invitation&lt;/a&gt;:&#xD;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;• For Individuals-The first $2,300 to JM 2008, the next $2,300 to the Compliance Fund, the next $28,500 to the RNC, and the balance of up to $37,000 will be divided evenly between the Colorado, Minnesota, New Mexico, and Wisconsin state parties' federal accounts.&#xD;&lt;br /&gt;• For Couples-The first $4,600 to JM 2008, the next $4,600 to the Compliance Fund, the next $57,000 to the RNC, and the balance of up to $74,000 will be divided evenly between the Colorado, Minnesota, New Mexico, and Wisconsin state parties' federal accounts. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xD;&lt;br /&gt;Of course the RNC as well as the state parties' federal committees can raise and spend &lt;em&gt;unlimited&lt;/em&gt; funds in support of McCain, and at &lt;em&gt;$76,200&lt;/em&gt; per couple, that is exactly what McCain is coming to town to do. &amp;nbsp;So in the end, there really aren't any federal limits all.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&#xD;&lt;p&gt;That's under 250 words. &amp;nbsp;Here's my 1000:&lt;ul&gt;&#xD;
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 04:32:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>Paul Rosenberg</author>
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