Edwards, Obama on Political Reform, Communications Policy

EDWARDS, OBAMA ON POLITICAL REFORM, COMMUNICATIONS POLICY
The Midwest Democracy Network (MDN) ­-- a nonpartisan alliance of 20 civic and public interest groups from Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin ­-- released former U.S. Senator John Edwards' and U.S. Senator Barack Obama's full and unedited responses to a detailed questionnaire on federal political and government reform issues. The questionnaire, sent to all the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates on September 11, covers campaign finance, government ethics, communications policy, election laws, voting rights, and congressional redistricting. The MDN questionnaire represents the most ambitious effort this year by the nation's civic community to provide the presidential candidates with a forum for discussing political reform. Both Edwards and Obama expressed support for regulatory and legislative efforts to clarify the public interest obligations of broadcasters, including adoption of new license processing guidelines that would encourage digital broadcasters to (1) air a certain minimum number of hours of qualifying civic and/or election-related programming each week and (2) file periodic reports with the Federal Communications Commission detailing how stations are meeting this and related guidelines
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* Press release
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