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In 1871, Congress gave Washington limited voting rights to elect a local governor, only to take those rights away a few years later because of accusations of corruption and financial mismanagement, and also because the city had so many blacks.
The CAF has hired Stan Greenberg, one of the "liberal" consultants who helped elect Clinton in 1992 and then got the boot after the Democrats lost big in 1994.
Under current federal election law, expenditures on issue-related speech--that is, ads that don't expressly advocate the election or defeat of a candidate by using words such as "vote for," "elect," or "defeat"--are exempt from the prohibition on corporate contributions and the limits on individual contributions.
An operating company with units subject to the emissions limitation requirements of thissubsection may elect the allocation of allowances as provided under subparagraphs (A) and (B).
Puerto Ricans residing in Puerto Rico cannot vote for president, and the delegate they elect to Congress has no vote.