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WeAreKochs

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Sun May 1, 2016, 04:57 PM May 2016

Kansas is a Cautionary Tale of Big (Koch Industries) Money Drowning Out Voters Voices

USA Today reported that “the House’s powerful tax-writing committee approved a bill Thursday that would ban the IRS from collecting the names of donors to tax-exempt groups.” In an interview with the paper, “Freedom Partners chairman and Koch Industries executive Mark Holden said Americans have the right to ‘anonymous free speech.’” This type of unlimited, unaccountable, political spending is an existential threat to our political institutions.

For a case study in the corrupting influence of unlimited, unaccountable, political spending by special interests like Koch Industries and Freedom Partners, consider the curious case of Kansas.

Read More: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/04/30/1521867/-Kansas-is-a-Cautionary-Tale-of-Big-Koch-Industries-Money-Drowning-Out-Voters-Voices-Kansas-KSleg

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Kansas is a Cautionary Tale of Big (Koch Industries) Money Drowning Out Voters Voices (Original Post) WeAreKochs May 2016 OP
Anonymous free speech...my ass we have a Right.. Volaris May 2016 #1
This is yet another obfuscation benld74 May 2016 #2

Volaris

(10,266 posts)
1. Anonymous free speech...my ass we have a Right..
Sun May 1, 2016, 05:28 PM
May 2016

Because Free Speech as a Right applies to Speech made IN PUBLIC, FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION. Doing so therefore requires the ABSENCE of anonymity.

None of this will end until Public Funding of Elections via National Tax.

benld74

(9,900 posts)
2. This is yet another obfuscation
Sun May 1, 2016, 06:00 PM
May 2016

Of the true meaning to what a truly despicable definition of free speech attempts to portray

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