The usual suspects were lined up to testify for two days of hearings at the Federal Election Commission (FEC) regarding political activity on the Internet-representatives of presidential campaigns, major political players like the AFL-CIO and advocates from the reform lobby.
Then there were my clients: a war refugee from El Salvador whose father loaded freight in a warehouse, a “recovering economist” who works in his pajamas from home and a former software product manager who had never cared about politics until three years ago. They are all political bloggers sharing a common goal: to convince the FEC that the Internet makes the basic premises of campaign finance law virtually inapplicable.
