Super Bowl-style corporate ads for candidates?

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Super Bowl-style corporate ads for candidates?


By SHARON THEIMER, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON – Possibly coming soon to your TV screen: election-season Super Bowl-style ads promoting congressional and presidential candidates, paid for by some of the nation's largest corporations.

It may happen. For decades, business and union money has been largely shut out of state, congressional and presidential campaigns. The Supreme Court may change that in a big way.
The court has raised a range of high-stakes possibilities that could let corporations, unions and wealthy individuals pour money into elections in time for this year's congressional races, not to mention the 2012 presidential contest. A ruling is expected as early as Tuesday.

At one extreme, the justices could give corporations, unions and activist groups funded by wealthy donors virtual free rein to run election-time ads for or against candidates.
Depending on the details, such a ruling could lay the groundwork for wealthy interests to press their rights further in future cases and argue they should be able to give money directly to presidential and congressional campaigns.

Going further, the court could strike down state laws banning such donations from campaigns. The justices also could decide that little or no information need be disclosed about such fundraising and spending.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100111/ap_on_bi_ge/us_campaign_finance

[Kurt Remarque]

1. puke. public financing, please (pipe dream)

[FrenchieCat]

2. Hasn't the Supreme Court fucked us enough?

They gave us George Bush already!

can't they quit while they are ahead? Geeze! :grr:

[bluestateguy]

3. Another pipe dream

would be for Obama and Holder to simply disregard the Court and enforce the campaign finance laws anyway. And dare the Court to stop them.