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Davis v. Federal Election Commission, the recent United States Supreme Court case striking down the federal "Millionaire's Amendment" to the McCain-Feingold Act (the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2003 or "BCRA"), illustrates the hostility of the current SCOTUS to campaign finance regulation--but it also throws in reasoning which could invalidate the public financing systems of several states (Maine and Arizona) and the City of Portland’s Voter Owned Elections.

Former NEA chair, and potential candidate for the U.S. Senate, John Frohnmayer gave conservative radio talker Lars Larson a lesson in humility in the Oregonian this week.

Larson, it seems, had picked up on a recent column by Dave Reinhard, criticizing the Port of Portland for posting a piece of art in a free speech exhibit at the PDX airport.

Larson calls the art obscene and anti-American. Here's Frohnmayer's response: