One reason the bill lost was that Republicans who have favored campaign reform were promised an opportunity to vote on an alternative bill in two weeks.
Did the children vet the speech, or was it their favored campaign manager, Paul Manafort?
He favored campaign finance reform, environmental protection and gun control decades before they became part of the nation's political agenda.
Thus Manafort also conveniently eclipsed Trump's protégé, his once favored campaign manager.
Ferrall said a 1986 poll commissioned by Common Cause found that 68% of the state's adults favored campaign financing reform, including use of public funds, if that would reduce money spent on campaigns.
The campaign sought to turn the page with the speech about his vision of what a Giuliani presidency would achieve — a rare formal address by a candidate who has mostly favored campaigning at town-hall meetings and photo-ops at diners.
He also favors campaign finance reform, a flat tax, reduced American military involvement overseas, abandoning efforts to build a missile shield system, gun ownership rights and abortion rights.
Joyce Purnick (Metro Matters column, Jan . 27 repeats an often-heard absurdity about Hillary Rodham Clinton's senatorial campaign: "She favors campaign finance reform, but is about to set a record for spending".
Additionally, the Center for Competitive Politics, which favors campaign finance deregulation, last year launched a website called ProxyFacts.org.org
She favors campaign finance reform, but is about to set a record for spending.
Senator McCain says he wants to campaign for Republicans who favor campaign finance reform.
