It s important to remember there are two kinds of soft money. There is party soft money and there s non-party soft money. And what John said I totally agree with. The Congress is simply not going to pass a bill that adversely affects party soft money without impacting the unions. For example, the unions raise their money through dues check-off.
Individual members don t even have a right to control how their political money is spent.
I can tell you, this Republican Congress is not going to pass a bill in the soft money area that doesn t deal with both unions and parties together, because we re not going to take the parties off the playing field. Sen. McConnell, let me ask you to explain one other thing. Well, there needs to be a distinction because it s important to remember the parties just don t exist to elect federal candidates. The Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee cares who gets elected to the legislature in Oklahoma. They care who gets elected mayor in South Dakota.