Over the last two days, I have been down in Florida at the Republican Governor’s Association Conference.  I had the chance to speak at a couple of different sessions as well as to many members of the media in attendance. 

It’s a busy time to be a Republican!

This morning there was a big moment for the Republican National Committee, as I announced that we will file lawsuits in the District of Columbia and Louisiana challenging, respectively, the constitutionality of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act’s ban on national parties raising and spending non-federal dollars, and the constitutionality of political party coordinated expenditure limits. 

The campaign finance restrictions the RNC is specifically challenging infringe on the First Amendment’s core: political speech and association. The RNC must have the ability to support state candidates, coordinate expenditures with our candidates, and truly engage in political activity on a national instead of a federal level.  The RNC has operated under and complied with these provisions of the law since their enactment, and as applied it is unconstitutional.

We need to move ahead and work with local, state, and national leaders in the 2009 Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races and plan for redistricting.