Vermont Campaign Finance

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By Laura Knoy on Thursday, March 2, 2006.
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Money, politics and the first amendment in the Green Mountain State! A Vermont campaign finance law faced some tough scrutiny before the U.S. Supreme Court this week. The law tightly limits how much Vermonters can give to candidates and how much candidates can spend. We’ll find out what the justices said and the impact on Vermont elections if the law is overturned. Laura's guests are Paul Burns, Executive Director of the Vermont Public Interest Research Group (VPIRG) and Erik Jaffee, a Washington, D.C., attorney who filed an amicus brief in Vermont's Supreme Court case. Jaffee is Chairman of the Free Speech & Election Law Practice Group for The Federalist Society.

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