Doug Lair v. Jonathan Motl

BEA, Circuit Judge)

dissenting:

Our representative government requires and relies on the ready flow of ideas between elected legislators and the voters. Those ideas are mostly transmitted during election campaigns by advertisements and organized rallies, examples of free speech, neither of which come free. Contributors to the campaigns want their ideas made known and accepted by the campaigning legislators. Restrictions on citizens’ campaign contributions limit' their ability to make their ideas known and to influence the legislators to accept and further those ideas. For these reasons,-our…