The Supreme Court has ruled that Corporations and Unions can spend freely to support or oppose a candidate. This overturns a 20-year-old ruling that prohibits corporations from using money coming directly from their general account. With this ruling, the Supreme Court has once again manipulated the Constitution to work for special interests.
Critics of campaign finance limits have for years argued that these laws were a restraint of freedom of speech. On what planet does a corporation get the right of freedom of speech? Corporations and Unions are not citizens of this coun-try. They do not get to hold up the Bill of Rights and claim them. There are laws that clearly give corporations rights, but freedom of speech isn’t one of them. What’s next? Will corporations make false claims about a products and when sued they can just say that it was their opinion under freedom of speech?
We have just given the keys to the kingdom to the wrong gatekeeper. The amount of money that goes into a political campaign has already gotten out of control. The MA Senatorial race saw over $10M spent in the last 9 days alone. Now what is to stop GE from using all of their NBC stations ad time to support specific candidates? What is to stop FOX from doing the same thing? What is to stop a foreign corporation from funding billions of dollars to elect the next President? This appears to be just another way to create international influence on our elected officials.
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