Albuquerque may help decide a major constitutional issue. ... Um ... wait ... ALBUQUERQUE? Good grief.
The sad thing is, if it reaches the Court, what they are quite likely to do is to decide that the city has been an egregious violator of constitutional rights for 25 years. Which would be very sad, frankly, because it looks like the limits have worked as they were meant to. They've leveled the field, kept special interest influence minimized (well, as much as you can at the local level, anyway), and since local media really has to cover the mayoral race, it doesn't restrict anyone's freedom of speech in any meaningful way.
And, to be sure, the Court did rule the other way with spending limits this year. But still .....
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12/19/2001: vive la france
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12/18/2001: you're NOT in the army now
12/18/2001: interesting donation
12/18/2001: shame on winn dixie, indeed
12/18/2001: saudi princess
12/17/2001: new resolve
12/17/2001: a victim of the attack ... yeah, right
12/17/2001: polluters ho!