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      <title>Comments On: 1999 Speech Indicates Move to the Right by Ford Early On.
    
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      <![CDATA[I should add, too,  that Mark Schuermann has forwarded me privately an abundance of background material relating to various past positions taken on the issue of campaign finance reform by Congressman Ford during his tenure on Capitol Hill. <br>
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Though none of these bear directly on the substance of Rep. Ford's 1999 Rotary Club speech, or on the precise point in question, these materials do suggest a continuing commitment to various  campaign finance reforms on the congressman's part.<br>
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Three cheers here for the digital age!
        
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      <![CDATA[I would add in the meantime that the longish passage supplied by Schuerrmann documenting a bill by the congressman banning "soft money" (i.e., contributions to ad hoc or "midwifing" organizations rather than directly to candidates or their campaigns) is not inconsistent with a call for allowing direct campaign contributions by corporations. Indeed, the two concepts work nicely in tandem.
        
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      <![CDATA[I welcome my friend Mark Schuermann'reponse and will have to locate the recording I made of then Congressman Ford's speech to find the exact text for which, back in 1999, I offered a paraphrase on the matter in question. <br>
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Much of the rest of then Congressman Ford's remarks is quoted directly and at length, a sure indicator that such a recording exists; indeed, I rarely if ever failed to record speeches by the congressman -- or even brief interviews in passing.
        
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      <![CDATA[Hence all the more reason why a free, vigilant, and indefatigable press is so important, to hold politicians' feet to the fire.
        
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      <![CDATA[As a long time staffer for Congressman Harold Ford, Jr., I can attest to the fact that he was in favor of banning corporate money in federal campaigns from the time he was sworn into office until he left the House of Representatives. He introduced his own legislation to ban soft money  in 1997 (that I helped him put together) and worked with John McCain to enact the McCain-Feingold law that was overturned by the Supreme Court.
        
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