Monthly Archives: June 2004

Campaign Finance

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James Joyner in commenting on this request that Kerry resign his senate seat says:

Candidates running for higher office while still holding their current one always face this problem, although Kerry does seem to be carrying the absentee bit further than most. His Senate salary, while modest in the context of the Heinz fortune, amounts to an undeclared taxpayer donation to his campaign since he has essentially been paid to run for president. My preference would be for all candidates seeking election to an office other than the one they currently hold to do so as private citizens.
This “undeclared taxpayer donation” is a true pittance compared to the much more egregious undeclared taxpayer donation to the bush campaign. I suspect that a single Air Force One campaign trip would pay kerry’s salary many time over.
Fairness suggests that both candidates should clearly account for time at work and at campaign and repay the taxpayer out of their campaign funds. This should be the practice for all office holders running for a higher office.
If the president is mixing state business (real or alleged) and campaig activities on the same trip he should not get to charge it all to the taxpayers.
Update (6/17): Sorry, I left off the link to James’ post.

The End?

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Ken McCleod wrote this elegy.
Brad Delong suggests:

But there is an election coming up. If George W. Bush loses it, things may still be OK.

I’d have much more confidence in this if congress were moving the impeachment process rapidly along.

Firefox 0.9

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The latest version of Firefox is now available from a server near you.
As usual, I’ve loaded it on one of my systems and will work with it for a few days before putting it on the other four.
A couple of items:

  • I don’t like the new default theme. When time permits I’ll try out some of the other available themes.
  • The installation was not as smooth as I have previously experienced. 0.9 did not want to use my 0.8 profile and I ended up having to copy/import various files. Of course, this also meant that all my remembered signons, etc., got dumped.

Well, I’ll futz around and see if I can find the claimed easy way to import this stuff.
Tim Bishop wonders whether Firefox is moving backwards.
I should note that Jen let me know earlier today that this release is out.