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The NYT fronts and the WP carries inside Bill Bradley's speech Monday in which he charged that Al Gore had little interest in campaign-finance reform because the current money-raising system favors incumbents.
This is true, say Michael Bechloss (NBC's Meet the Press ), Bill Kristol ( This Week ), and Mark Shields (PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ). The reason is that people are generally quite content, say Kristol and Doyle McManus ( Washington Week in Review )--incumbents don't want to rock the boat.
The NYT fronts and the WP carries inside Bill Bradley's speech Monday in which he charged that Al Gore had little interest in campaign finance reform because the current money-raising system favors incumbents.
In an attempt to balance the interests, the Commission has decided to retain the sunset date of 2005 as the date after which licensees would not have to pay relocation costs to incumbents but decided that incumbents would not convert to secondary status until and unless an emerging technology licensee required use of the spectrum, regardless of the sunset date.
Generally, incumbents do have enormous advantages in clout, money, and name recognition.