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Has our Government done us wrong

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You really should check your facts:

 

I've checked them.

 

The Supreme Court decision applies to financing and production of political ads.  It especially voided the restriction on political ads by either corporations or unions in the last days of any campaign.  It does not OK "undisclosed corporate money" or union money.  The ruling stated that the government can still require full disclosure of those financing any advertisement in political campaigns.  Will they?

 

A corporation can disclose they have spent money to influence an election, but they don't have to disclose where they got the money.   A sham corporation can be set up to contribute the money and report it, but the actual source of the money could be from only one person if it so chose.

If I've got it a bit wrong, check with Karl Rove, he knows all the details.

 

You should actually read the decision written up by Justice Kennedy.

 

And I'm pretty damn sure those last elections had more to do with the voters being fed up with the liberal agenda and policies than it had to do with corporate advertising!  At least that's what all the armchair quarterbacking and post election analyzing indicated.  At least now there is an antidote for the liberal TV and print media bias poisoning the system.

 

Were they all on Fox?

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You really should check your facts:

 

I've checked them.

 

The Supreme Court decision applies to financing and production of political ads.  It especially voided the restriction on political ads by either corporations or unions in the last days of any campaign.  It does not OK "undisclosed corporate money" or union money.  The ruling stated that the government can still require full disclosure of those financing any advertisement in political campaigns.  Will they?

 

A corporation can disclose they have spent money to influence an election, but they don't have to disclose where they got the money.   A sham corporation can be set up to contribute the money and report it, but the actual source of the money could be from only one person if it so chose.

If I've got it a bit wrong, check with Karl Rove, he knows all the details.

 

You should actually read the decision written up by Justice Kennedy.

 

And I'm pretty damn sure those last elections had more to do with the voters being fed up with the liberal agenda and policies than it had to do with corporate advertising!  At least that's what all the armchair quarterbacking and post election analyzing indicated.  At least now there is an antidote for the liberal TV and print media bias poisoning the system.

 

Were they all on Fox?


It seems to me that the super court didn't think it through once they decided corps were people. Unlimited is what I heard many times and as hiroad put it, *will they report it. Cut it any way they will, it's still an inside route to the legislators of their choosing, and damn it all, to the rest of us. Term limits either by vote or legislation might, should, could, will be a wake up call to those crooks in washington. A complete revamped continental period system is where we need to go.

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My "Will They?" should not be read as "Will they report it?", but rather as "Will the federal government make that a requirement?"  That is what Justice Kennedy was talking about in his opinion.  The Federal government can still require transparency.  Will they?

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