"Democrats may resist bill to restrict state elections officials' campaigning"

This is distressing, but not surprising. The Hill reports: "Congressional Democrats, including those with executive-branch aspirations, may offer significant resistance to a Democratic bill that would affect how presidential campaigns operate in 2008. Rep. Susan Davis (D-Calif.) introduced legislation that would control and prevent chief state elections officials from actively participating in federal campaigns, responding to the involvement of the Florida and Ohio secretaries of state-- former Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.) and Ken Blackwell, respectively --in the Bush presidential campaigns of 2000 and 2004. However, with Democrats acquiring a majority of statehouses after the recent midterm elections, including those in several battleground states, some party members may object to, or undercut, the legislation before the 2008 races."

Posted by Rick Hasen at January 22, 2007 10:33 PM