Marie Cocco -- Public Funding Is Key to Campaign Reform

What the Democrats are counting on is that the provisions of the bill prohibiting groups like the Sierra Club and labor unions from paying for negative ads within 60 days on an election will be struck down by the Courts, but the rest of this misbegotten bill will remain, giving them all the soft money they want in the form of "independent" ads.

Of course, there are Conservative groups who can do the same. So actual campaigns will diminish and the real action will be between all the groups who used to just give money.

I doubt that anyone in politics would support such a bill unless he/she had a Plan B in mind.