A Fed Up Bernie Sanders Obliterates The Koch Fueled Supreme Court Majority
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/04/02/fed-bernie-sanders-obliterates-koch-fueled-supreme-court-majority.htmlA Fed Up Bernie Sanders Obliterates The Koch Fueled Supreme Court Majority
By: Jason Easley
Wednesday, April, 2nd, 2014, 12:03 pm
After the Supreme Court handed down a decision that wiped out all individual campaign donation limits today, a fed up Bernie Sanders took aim at the 5 Koch conservatives in the court’s majority.
In a 5-4 ruling, the conservative majority on the Supreme wiped out all legal limits on individual campaign donations. This decision opens the door for wealthy individuals to give as much money as they want to political campaigns, and it is clear that the nation’s top champion for getting the money out of our politics has had enough.
In a statement Sen. Sanders said, “Freedom of speech, in my view, does not mean the freedom to buy the United States government…What world are the five conservative Supreme Court justices living in? To equate the ability of billionaires to buy elections with ‘freedom of speech’ is totally absurd. The Supreme Court is paving the way toward an oligarchic form of society in which a handful of billionaires like the Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson will control our political process.”
Over the past two election cycles Republicans have not been able to buy elections at the federal level, so their answer is to pollute the electoral process with even more money.
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Sen. Sanders is fed up, and the American people should be too. Now is the time to join the fight, and support the Vermont senator’s efforts to overturn Citizens United. In the meantime, there is one important thing that every concerned citizen can do.
Get out and vote. The 2012 election demonstrated that the Koch brothers can buy lots of ads, but they still can’t buy your vote.
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many, many other elected reps and scream, too. And yes, we've got to set records for voting in 2014. Meanwhile, money is NOT speech!
fucking day since Watergate. I have met every living president except Jimmy Carter, as well as the likes of Ann Richards and I had dinner with Bill and Hillary before most anyone outside of Arkansas ever heard of them. I have learned from DU a lot longer than I have been a member. I have watched nearly all of Bernie Sanders career. I admire Bernie Sanders and always did. He is not a Democrat, by the way.
Bernie Sanders being fed up is going to be about as effective in getting anything done with regard to SCOTUS' decision on McCutcheon as it was for John Conyers "strongly-worder letters" to all manner of shrubco henchmen, including darth cheney and antonio gonzalez. Yes, he called for GOTV. No duh.
I watch the hearings. I watch the Congress. I can name nearly every member of the Senate and many Reps and where they're from nearly as easy as I can name the drivers in Nascar and their sponsors.
Haha, you thinking you know how informed I am. And, yet, I would be willing to concede that maybe you have an experience or two over me. But don't go thinking you can judge my experience by one fecetious comment given in the same spirit that criticisms of Conyers' SWLs were during the bush criminal term and think you can declare me clueless or ignorant. I've been around the block a time or two, sister.
