To begin with, I don’t trust any politician to come up with a campaign finance reform act. That’s like the pot calling the kettle black.

But on the more serious side, the Constitution says that “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech” but with this law, it does just that.

It says that political organization will not be allowed to tell its membership using television what a particular candidate stands for 30 and 60 days before an election.

Now, what sense does that make?

I am a life member of the National Rifle Association, and it is the group’s duty to inform me of who is anti-gun and who is not.

Now, you may not agree with the NRA, but that has nothing to do with the price of beans as far as this law is concerned. The law just reeks of political abuse of power.

It’s not just the NRA affected by this law. As far as I’m concerned, any of our politicians who signed on to this bill should be ousted from office. Does Sen. John McCain actually think that the politicians running for office aren’t going to get money somehow, and loads of it?

When you think about all the laws coming out of Washington, this one here, the “No Child Left Behind Law,” the ban on plastic guns, it would really be quite laughable, except that it’s so pathetic.

Paul Lowell, Rumford