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SWOON! at My Gravitas:
--- Quote from: a pack of wolves on 03 Aug 2010, 04:50 ---It appears that fairly recently US corporations had their legal rights extended so that they can make political contributions in the same manner private individuals can, since in law they enjoy most of the rights and few of the responsibilities of people.
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Yeah, the Supreme Court really dropped the ball on that one, Jesus
Johnny C:
yeah apow is right about corporation donor laws - companies can make like truly extravagant donations. considering how few electoral rights there are left to be granted to corporations we're basically four or five electoral cycles away from president wal-mart
JD:
--- Quote from: SWOON! at My Gravitas on 03 Aug 2010, 06:50 ---
--- Quote from: a pack of wolves on 03 Aug 2010, 04:50 ---It appears that fairly recently US corporations had their legal rights extended so that they can make political contributions in the same manner private individuals can, since in law they enjoy most of the rights and few of the responsibilities of people.
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Yeah, the Supreme Court really dropped the ball on that one, Jesus
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Wait when was this
throw me a link or something
look out! Ninjas!:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 04 Aug 2010, 00:33 ---yeah apow is right about corporation donor laws - companies can make like truly extravagant donations. considering how few electoral rights there are left to be granted to corporations we're basically four or five electoral cycles away from president wal-mart
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Vote Sanders in '12!
bainidhe_dub:
--- Quote from: Zombiedude on 04 Aug 2010, 01:13 ---a link or something
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January 21st, 2010
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122805666
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/21/nation/la-na-court-corporations22-2010jan22
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKazKb5f79A
The Facebook group Citizens Against Unlimited Corporate Campaign Contributions has been a pretty thorough repository of news articles on the issue.
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