He'll See You in Court

Jack Davis is mad and he's taking the matter to court, the high court.  We're talking the US Supreme Court, and you can't get no higher than that.

One thing about Jack, you make him mad, he doesn't let it fester; he acts.  Back in 2003, for instance, when Jack was still a Republican, he plunked down money for two tickets to a $1000 a plate fund raiser in Buffalo so he could have a word with the guest of honor  Vice President Dick Cheney about free trade.  Jack hates free trade, thinks it's ruining our country, destroying jobs.  Don't get him started.

Anyway, Cheney wouldn't speak to Jack, and Jack didn't take it well.  In fact, he threw a fit, a super-sized fit.  The upshot of that was, Cheney's goons  ejected Jack from the room.  That's right, threw him OUT.  Next thing you know, Jack left the Republican Party (Take that, Cheney!) and signed up as a Democrat.   

Now Jack Davis is running for Congress in the 26th District (That's the seat that Tom Reynolds is vacating, the seat that Alice Kryzan and Jon Peters also want to sit in.).  This will make the third time Jack has run for that seat.   The first two times, he spent a total of $3.5  million dollars of his own  money (Jack's an industrialist, a rich one, a millionaire, in fact).

Which brings us up to the present and the  case Jack's lawyers are arguing today in the Supreme Court.  When Jack runs for office this time, he wants to spend $3 million dollars on his campaign, and what he's mad about is this:  When the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform act of 2002 was passed, it included something known as the "Millionaire's Amendment" which Jack thinks is totally unfair to rich people like himself.

The Millionaire's Amendment  allows  non-millionaires to up the amount of money they can collect from supporters, if their opponent is a millionaire.  Specifically, the amendment says that if one candidate spends more than $350,000 of his/her own money on a congressional race, opponents who are not millionaires can collect individual contributions of $6,900, which is three times the normal limit of $2,300.

So, that's what Jack's lawyers are up to today:  Fighting for the rights of downtrodden millionaires.  A decision is expected in June.