Mitt/Newt/Ron/Rick/Rick don't count. Citizens United does.

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Literally.



"In January 2010, five justices of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that corporations have a First Amendment right to spend unlimited funds promoting or attacking candidates in local, state and federal elections. This radical decision rolls back a century of political tradition and more than 60 years of legal precedent prohibiting direct corporate involvement in elections. The First Amendment was never intended to let nonhuman business corporations spend unlimited corporate cash to influence our elections."

2 + 2 = 5

"Corporations were already spending considerable amounts of money to influence elections, but Citizens United v. FEC allows CEOs to dip into corporate treasuries and spend as much as they want to buy pro-corporate lawmakers and punish those who stand up for the public interest. To make matters worse, most of this new spending will be hidden from the public. Corporate front groups will sponsor cynical advertisements supporting industry-friendly candidates and attacking public servants who stand up to corporations; the public will not know who is funding the ads.

"Corporations are not people. They do not vote, and they should not be allowed to have such an overwhelming influence on elections. Public Citizen is pursuing several legislative responses and a constitutional amendment to reclaim the First Amendment for its original purpose."


http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=3850
http://democracyisforpeople.org/

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Rec but . . .

Ron Paul DOES Matter here!

http://www.lawandfreedom.com/site/election/Witness/Boos.pdf

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6. don't know much

about him, aside from some college students pamphletting on the streets, bumpersticker discussion. is he relevant?

[JustAnotherGen]

7. He was one of the Plaintiffs

In Citizen's United.

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8. well blow me down

[FrenchieCat]

2. Mitt matters, as he will most likely be the Republican nominee....

"Corporations are people" - Mitt Romney

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3. Mitt rubs it in!

[Frustratedlady]

4. Well, #1...it's coming back to bite the Pugs in the butt, and

#2, I'd still like to know why shareholders aren't screaming from the rooftops; asking why this money is being taken out of the corporate profits and not given to them in dividends?

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5. good point

maybe they know something we don't

[madmom]

9. want proof of a corporate fetus

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10. good one!

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11. whooop there it is

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/12/occupys-rose-parade-float-70-foot-octopus-of-corporate-greed.html