If the Colombian Chamber of Commerce wants to spend a little bit of money to run some ads saying, ‘Vote for this guy because he supports the Colombian-American free-trade pact,’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, that sounds good to me. I’m just not frightened that some English citizens are going to run some ads in the country, and I’m not really terribly concerned that the Syrians run their ads saying, ‘We need stronger terrorist organizations,’ and that that’s going to be just a real winner for anybody. It doesn’t worry me.
Bradley Smith, a former FEC commissioner and the co-founder and chairman of the Center for Competitive Politics. Foreign contributions are illegal in the U.S, but Smith advocates eliminating campaign-finance restrictions.
# posted February 15, 2012