David Mason '79, a member of the Federal Election Commission's Litigation Committee, will address the question Should Bloggers Be Regulated? during his lunchtime visit to the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum on Wednesday, Sept. 14. His lecture will begin at 12:15 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
Prior to his nomination to the FEC by President Clinton in 1998, Mason a political science major who graduated cum laude served as deputy assistant secretary of defense, guiding base-closing legislation. He has served on Capitol Hill and was a Republican nominee for the Virginia House of Delegates in the 48th District, in 1982. (More: http://www.fec.gov/members/mason/masonbio.shtml.)
For more information about this event, visit the current Fortnightly: http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/mmca/temp_fn.asp?volumeFN=21&issueFN=01&typeFN=f.