Corporate Money

How to Regain Our Democracy

Cenk Uygur | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Corporate Interests, Corruption, Occupy the States, Campaign Finance Reform, Constitutional Amendment, Wolf Pac, Corporate Money, Occupy Wall Street, Public Financing of Elections, Corporate Personhood, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

Our politicians are bought. The Democrats are bought and the Republicans even more so. Everyone knows it. There is one answer though. It is the one thing that is above Congress and the Supreme Court.

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Sam Stein

MoveOn Puts Out Closing Ad, Casting Corporate Donors Against Average Citizens

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the last round of ads it will run before the election, the progressive advocacy group MoveOn.org is going back to the well, raising the specter of ...

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Karl Rove and the Tea Party: What Really Happened

Will Bunch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cap and Trade, Tea Party Movement, Karl Rove, Corporate Money, Mike Castle, Richard Nixon, Delaware Senate Race, Delaware, Christine O'donnell, Glenn Beck, Barack Obama, Politics News
Will Bunch

When Christine O'Donnell stunned the GOP establishment and upset Mike Castle last week, the first person she looked to was Russ Murphy of the Delaware 9-12 Patriots, not Karl Rove.

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In The Public Interest: Remove the Blinders

Lisa Gilbert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Bp, Corporate Money, Exxon Mobil, Shareholder Rights, Lisa Gilbert, Target, US Pirg, Citizens United, DISCLOSE Act, Campaign Finance, Politics News
Lisa Gilbert

It's safe to say that unlimited corporate and union spending in elections is far from what the founding fathers envisioned when they guaranteed Americans the right of "freedom of speech."

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What Ted Olson Needs to Know About Corporate Democracy After Citizens United

Jesse Strauss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Division of Corporate Finance, Fair Elections Now Act, Citizens Right to Know Act, Corporate Money, Supreme Court Campaign Finance, Political Premium, SEC Rule 14a-8, Corporate Boards, Citizens United, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, No-Action Letter, Corporate Democracy, Citizens United v. FEC, Ted Olson, Mccain-Feingold, Business News
Jesse Strauss

Contrary to Ted Olson's contentions, shareholders do not have the ability to preclude corporate spending on political campaigns.

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Nick Wing

Murray Hill PR Firm Plans (Satirical) Run For Maryland Congressional Seat

HuffingtonPost.com | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Maryland Congressional Race, Corporate Money, Murray Hill for Congress, Corporations Election Spending, Supreme Court, Murray Hill Maryland Congress, Corporation for Confress, Maryland Congress, Supreme Court Campaign Finance, Murray Hill, Maryland, Video, Politics News

Corporations are taking note of the impact that the Supreme Court decision to remove limits on corporate campaign spending will have on federal electi...

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Foreign Corporations Begin Lobbying For Right To Spend Money In American Elections

Think Progress | Lee Fang | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreign Corporations, Corporate Money, Campaign Finance Rules, Supreme Court Campaign Finance, Campaign Finance, Foreign Corporations Campaign Finance, Corporate Campaign Finance, Politics News

Last week, the 5-4 Supreme Court ruling in the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision invalidated a sixty-three year-old ban on corpo...

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Well done, Mr. Kennedy!

William Fisher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Hillary the Movie, Corporate Money, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Politics News
William Fisher

OK, if you really read Mr. Justice Kennedy's opinion for the Supreme Court's majority in the Citizens United case, you just have to agree with his rea...

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The Court Allows a Katrina of Corporate Money

Mark Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hillary the Movie, Corporate Money, Citizen's United v. FEC Decision, Citizens United, Citizen's United v. FEC, Politics News
Mark Green

Today's Supreme Court ruling is the second shoe to drop this week clobbering democracy. The Court now permits corporate money to overwhelm the levees of democracy.

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"Capitolism": A Race between Congressional Corruption and the Most Massive Citizen Involvement in U.S. Legislative History

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Big Pharma, Corporate Money, Federal Corruption, Consumer Spending, Kentucky, Capitalism, John Authers, John Yarmuth, Healthcare Costs, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Representative Yarmuth, Congressman Yarmuth, Louisville, Special Agent Christiansen, Big Money, Ways and Means Committee, 70 % of GDP, Legal Corruption, Mad as Hell Doctors' Cross Country Tour, Carl Christiansen, Capitolism, Insurance Reform, Rachel Newton, Legalized Corruption, Health Care, Campaign Finance Reform, Fbi, Healthcare, Co-Pay, Politics News
Gail McGowan Mellor

All of the sudden five-year increase in consumer spending, which primed the U.S. economy for the fall, can be attributed to health care costs.

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Obama Can't Thumb His Nose at the GOP, and Here's Why

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

To play the centrist political game correctly requires compromise, conciliation, and bipartisanship. Obama learned early that this was the sure-fire way to bag the big financial and corporate dollars.

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Edwards: Obama "Living In Never-Never Land"

ABC News | JAKE TAPPER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Edwards, Corporate Money, Musharraf, Corporations, Unions, Barack Obama, Politics News

In a wide-ranging, free-wheeling interview with Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards with ABC News Friday afternoon, the former North Carolina...

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