Herb Block poked fun at the 1966 election reform law by likening it to a modernist sculpture, which he fashioned from an assemblage of disparate, outdated auto parts. President Lyndon Johnson had called on Congress in May to pass legislation to update outmoded regulations for election campaign financing and advocated tax deductions for campaign contributions. The Campaign Contribution Law, passed by Congress in October of 1966, provided for direct subsidy of presidential elections, but the measure was attacked as an unworkable hodgepodge of old and new that would never prevent bribery of elected officials through campaign contributions.

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