Nonprofit Advocacy Groups Oppose Campaign-Finance Exemption

More than 50 liberal nonprofit advocacy groups have joined forces to fight a proposed exemption to a campaign-finance bill that would benefit large membership organizations like the National Rifle Association.

"It is inappropriate and inequitable to create a two-tiered system of campaign finance laws and First Amendment protections, one for the most powerful and influential and another for everyone else," says a letter sent yesterday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It was signed by groups including the Alliance for Justice, the Campaign for Community Change, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a variety of anti-gun-violence groups, and the Sierra Club and several other environmental organizations.