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Opinion
Published
02/18/10
On Jan. 21, the Supreme Court overturned decades of precedent and more than a century of American tradition by ruling that corporations have the same rights as citizens when it comes to political speech. The decision threatens to open the floodgates for special interests - including foreign companies - to spend without limit in our elections. To put the threat in perspective, consider that candidates, political parties, political action committees and outside groups spent a total of $3 billion on all 2008 federal elections. Now, let's say Exxon Mobil, which raked in $45 billion in profits in 2008, decided it wanted...
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Special Interests? - 2010-02-18 19:18:57
As in the Trial Lawyers Association and the Unions that already buy and sell politicians?
Oh that's right, they're exempt from the law.
At least now political contributions will be in black and white not whitewashed.
But what ARE 'Special Interests'? To Liberals it's anything 'big' but never anything they personally support. So 'Green' companies are not special interests but somehow the NRA is.
Peter Dennis is right. We need real representatives, not the 40+ years of tax and spend Liberals we have suffered under.
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It never - 2010-02-18 14:09:00
ceases to amazing me how liberals pick and choose what constitutional rights they are going to follow. The political monopoly in Maryland and on the Fed level, that are bankrupting our country, is a much larger threat to our rights than who can donate money. The liberals will do what ever it takes to maintain their strangle hold on Maryland. I wonder if there are any Scott Browns living in Maryland.
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