Could Michael Jordan endorse Bradley under Campaign Finance “Reform”?????
I admire Bill Bradley. I admire Michael Jordan, one of the few highly-paid athletes who seems to have remained a well-grounded person. News reports indicating Jordan is doing a political commercial for Bradley after having already donated $1,000 to Bradley’s campaign raise an interesting question: Under Bradley’s (and McCain’s and Feingold’s) campaign finance “reform” proposals, wouldn’t Jordan’s ad constitute an “in kind” contribution worth one hell of a lot more than $1,000. Wouldn’t the new “reform” prohibit such ad as the equivalent of a personal contribution exceeding the government-allowed level of political speech? I think Jordan should be free to make the ad regardless of how much he were to have contributed to Bradley. Hell, I think Jordan should have the freedom to publicly give all his money to Bradley’s campaign if he were to choose to do so. That’s what freedom is all about, but the campaign finance “reform” proposals will increase the anti-free-speech and anti-freedom gov
