We have also been troubled by the dishonesty of some of Ms. Edwards' campaign ads — most recently an assertion that Mr. Van Hollen is somehow soft on gun control and thus on crime. The evidence? His sponsorship of a 2010 campaign finance bill known as the DISCLOSE Act that expanded disclosure requirements for large donors but not for the National Rifle Association (or trade unions for that matter). It was a bill supported by this newspaper despite its exemptions and by 217 of 253 Democrats voting in the House only to fail in the U.S. Senate because it lacked a filibuster-proof majority due to GOP opposition.