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He ran for Congress from Massachusetts and, revitalized, served for 18 years--notably helping to overturn the shameful "gag rule" that forbade the reading of anti-slavery petitions on the floor of the House.
He rode to office by allying himself with a state term limit initiative that Foley filed suit to overturn.
"Strains of Beethoven's fifth and Tina Turner drift in with the tear gas as gangs of black-masked protestors overturn newspaper stands," he wrote.
To do this, he thinks, will require not only banning soft money and providing free TV air time to candidates, but also full public financing of congressional elections and a constitutional amendment to overturn Buckley vs.
If DEA officials peremptorily overrule state law, as Bennett wants, the issue will end up in the courts, where conservatives will, presumably, favor unelected federal judges backing the decision of unelected federal bureaucrats to overturn the popular will.