USA Today reports on a battle of the heavyweights. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called a proposed amendment that would give Congress and the states the power to regulate campaign spending a “dangerous proposal” that would “dramatically weaken one of our most precious freedoms.” “I understand that no politician likes to be criticized,” McConnell said. “But the recourse is not to shut up your fellow citizens.”
Politico similarly reports that the two Senate leaders have emerged as leading antagonists on the issue of campaign finance and free speech. McConnell (R-Ky.) has long been an opponent of restrictions on campaign finance, while Reid (D-Nev.) has made the billionaire Republican donors and oil magnates Charles and David Koch a major theme of his ire in 2014.
If the Democrats want to fight on free speech, it appears the Republicans are more than willing.