Legal does not mean ethical.

[wordsmythe]

http://www.hutchnews.com/news/region...rs091606.shtml

Group knocks campaign's electronic flyers

TOPEKA - The president of a national watchdog group said Friday that Attorney General Phill Kline and other state officeholders shouldn't be allowed to ask for campaign funds using e-mail addresses collected through a state Web site.


Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen in Washington, D.C., said the practice gives an unfair advantage to incumbents over their challengers, who wouldn't have access to such lists of e-mail addresses.

She also said her group was "shocked" that the state's Governmental Ethics Commission considers such e-mails permissible under state law.

"There are plenty of opportunities for airing this issue but sweeping it under the rug, in my view, is not an option," said Claybrook, who was head of the National Highway Traffic Administration under President Jimmy Carter.

[Highwayman]

There is something familiar about that. It reminds me of someone else. Don’t tell me, it come to me in a minute. I believe the phrase was something like….

"There is no controlling legal authority that says this was in violation of law."

[Jolly Rancher]

I am shocked to see the words 'legal' and 'ethical' used in the same sentence.

[lurker]

Originally Posted by wordsmythe

In other words...

That doesn't support the position I want it to so it can't be true.

...or that position must be wrong.

[lurker]

Originally Posted by Highwayman

There is something familiar about that. It reminds me of someone else. Don’t tell me, it come to me in a minute. I believe the phrase was something like….

"There is no controlling legal authority that says this was in violation of law."

Fur wordy's edjumakayshun: there is nowhere for you to hide from the ricochet of the stones that you throw:

But this week, too, the Clinton scandals finally reach critical mass. The reason is simple: volume. There are so many of them, coming from every direction. News of Gore's lawbreaking comes days before news that the first lady's chief of staff took a $50,000 campaign contribution in the White House from a California "hustler" (the National Security Council's word) looking for "access."

This comes just days after the Lincoln Bedroom list, the selling by a tenant of what most Americans regard as their common patrimony. At the same time, the Commerce Department announces new rules banning what the Clinton administration had been doing for four years – giving places on international trade missions to fat-cat Democratic donors.

Meanwhile, documents emerge showing that the mad INS rush to naturalize a million new Americans last year (resulting in hundreds, maybe thousands of criminals sliding through unchecked) was done under the pressure of a White House eager to produce new Democratic voters in time for Clinton's reelection.

Clinton had made promoting trade the keystone of his entire foreign policy, and now it turns out that it was a vehicle for the crassest political money-grubbing. It turns out, too, that naturalization, that most sacred induction ritual into the American civil religion, was also made an instrument of Clinton's political purposes.

Is there anything Clinton and company have touched that they have not corrupted?

[Highwayman]

You know Lurker, Wordy just hates it when we talk about his heroes like this. I really think he started this thread to bash Phil Kline and Republicans. I’ll bet he claims we’re trying to detract from the issue or something.

[Made in the USA]

Personally, I don't vote for someone primarily for their political afilliation, I vote for them because I think they are the best person running for the job. As for Phil Kline, IMO he is an idiot who hides behind the "religion" card. Mine nor anyone else's medical history is none of his business. The man has a tumultuous reputation with the Bar Association, and has been involved in too many things to make me respect him. Of course, most lawyers fall into the same category. If their mouth is moving, then they are most probably lying!

[Bubba]

me too!

[wordsmythe]

Originally Posted by Highwayman

You know Lurker, Wordy just hates it when we talk about his heroes like this. I really think he started this thread to bash Phil Kline and Republicans. I’ll bet he claims we’re trying to detract from the issue or something.

Actually it greatly warms my heart to see that you guys have to fall back on this tactic more and more often.

It shows you really don't have anything and it does raise my hopes for November.

Keep ignoring current facts guys (insert Lurker's made up word here).

[Detector]

I am shocked to see the words 'legal' and 'ethical' used in the same sentence.

Especially in politics.