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Latter-day Saints Score in Elections

Many Latter-day Saint candidates claimed jubilant victories after this week's election, with Mitt Romney capturing the Massachusetts governorship, Gordon Smith sweeping into a second term as U.S. senator from Oregon, and 10 others elected to seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Source: Meridian Magazine - The Place Where Latter-day Saints Gather

From "About Meridian Magazine" Page:

When Latter-day Saints packed their scant belongings into wagons or handcarts and tramped at great sacrifice across a dusty wilderness, they had one thing in mind. They wanted to leave Babylon behind and create a better world. We, who carry their legacy, have the same feelings today. We want to shape the world our families are growing up in--not just be shaped by it.
Our challenge is that on every side--especially in the media--we are bombarded by Babylon. There is no leaving it behind. Everything from news and trends to how to rear our children is brought to us by people whose value systems are at odds with our own. A battle is raging for our minds and hearts, and ideas are the ammunition.

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Doolittle and Delay Battle Campaign Finance Reform in 1999

In addition, reform supporters are concerned about attempts to kill the bill using "poison pill" amendments and phony reform proposals put forth by reform opponents like Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-TX) and Representative John Doolittle (R-CA). In the last Congress, Representatives DeLay and Doolittle and others offered numerous such amendments intended to make the final bill unpalatable to its own supporters. In the end, the DeLay/Doolittle strategy failed and the bill passed on a bipartisan 252-179 vote, with one-fourth of House Republicans joining almost all Democrats in favor.

Statement Of Common Cause President Ann McBride : On Defeat Of Doolittle Amendment On Campaign Finance Reform

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Campaign reform weighed in Placer County

A supervisor's proposal seeks to cap political contributions at $500 and 'level the playing field.'

By Dorothy Korber -- Bee Staff Writer
Published 2:15 a.m. PDT Tuesday, May 13, 2003

Supervisors in Placer County, where campaign spending has grown faster than even the exploding population, will consider an ordinance today that would limit individual political contributions to $500.

The ordinance is proposed by Supervisor Rex Bloomfield, who says the $500 cap would limit influence by big contributors and encourage more people to run for county office. His measure is modeled on Roseville's campaign reform ordinance.

"Campaigning in Placer County has become an arms race to see who can pull in the most money," Bloomfield said Monday. "More money is being spent on one supervisor's race here than is spent on assembly races that cover four or five counties.

"We need to level the playing field so more people have a chance to run for office. That's more in the character of our county -- it would bring us back to our roots as a place where candidates meet the people instead of running expensive, glossy campaigns," he said.

In Placer's primary election last year, Bloomfield said, not one challenger came forward to oppose any incumbent. "Everyone was scared off by the amount of money they'd need to run," he said.

He cited an analysis by The Bee, reported in December, which found that the average contribution in local Placer races tripled between 1992 and 2000 -- from $244 to $740.

Of the 47,000 political contributions compiled in The Bee's regional database, the largest single donation went to a supervisor candidate in Placer County. That $50,000 contribution was collected by Bruce Kranz, Bloomfield's opponent in the March 2000 primary, from a committee controlled by John Doolittle, a local Republican congressman.

"A single contribution like that could win an election," said Bloomfield, who avoided a run-off with Kranz by 12 votes.

Campaign reform generally lessens the clout of special interests, Bloomfield said. "It will alleviate some of the public's concern about local elections being dominated by any one industry."

Bloomfield's proposed ordinance does provide a way for candidates to double the $500-per-contribution limit -- but only if they agree to cap their campaign spending.

This voluntary spending limit would be based on the number of residents in the district -- $1 per resident for the primary, $1.50 per resident for the general election.

"There are about 53,000 residents in each supervisorial district, so that means that the voluntary spending limit would be about $53,000 in the primary, $80,000 in the general election," Bloomfield said. "That's still an awful lot of money, but we had to start somewhere."

The proposed campaign finance ordinance is scheduled to be considered by the board at 9:30 a.m. today during its regular meeting at the county building, 175 Fulweiler Ave., Auburn.

Bloomfield said he's not sure how his colleagues on the Board of Supervisors will respond to the ordinance. Polled by The Bee in December, most opposed the idea of limiting campaign contributions.

"Hopefully, they'll find parts of the ordinance that they can live with," Bloomfield said. "Whatever their response, though, there should be public dialogue on this issue."

From 2000: The Far Right Agenda from Delay and Doolittle
"We have the House, we have the Senate, we have the White House, which means we have the agenda," Mr DeLay announced on Wednesday.

He could hardly have put it more clearly than that. But, just in case there might be someone who detected a note of bipartisan backsliding, Mr DeLay then underscored his point.

"We'll act exactly the same way as we have been. We'll write conservative bills and ask the Democrats to participate," he said.

"The things we've been dreaming about we can now do."

Two of Mr DeLay's closest allies struck the same note. Senator Phil Gramm [husband of Enron-tainted appointee Wendy Gramm] of Texas announced on Tuesday that Republicans now had the opportunity they have been seeking for half a century.

Congressman John Doolittle of California described the party's position as "awesome", and announced that the moment had arrived to implement "the rest of the Contract with America" - in other words, the Newt Gingrich deregulatory agenda of 1994.

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