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Old 09-09-2009, 02:45 PM   #35
CamEdwards
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Originally Posted by flere-imsaho View Post
Exceptionally good spin here. Reading this at face value "corporations" are only groups of individuals who come together to pool money for a specific political purpose.

Now, while that's certainly the case, it seems a pretty big omission to not mention that the invalidation of these laws would also allow such things as BP, Airbus, GE, etc... to drop millions or even billions of their shareholders' dollars into political campaigns, or independent political ads, unfettered. Surely that needs to be a consideration, no?


The crux of the problem here seems to me to be the fact that in today's media environment, it is incredibly hard to undo the effects of bad publicity (whether based on truth or simply outright lies), especially in a timely manner as required by the realities of today's political campaigns. I don't know how you solve this.

I think it's more an issue for shareholders than the government.
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