McConnell: Citizens United 'Leveled the Field' for Campaign Finance

[TomCADem]

It is funny how McConnell is demanding that corporations stay out of politics in response to corporate boycotts of States that have been aggressively trying to suppress the right to vote. Yet, a few years ago, McConnell was the biggest cheerleader for corporations to get involved in politics.

[2naSalit]

1. Oh puhleeeze!

[TomCADem]

2. Mitch McConnell now wants companies to 'stay out of politics'

Like Trump, McConnell must have trouble keeping track of his lies.

https://news.yahoo.com/mitch-mcconnell-now-wants-companies-052229199.html

Republicans sound really angry about the criticism from some big private companies about Georgia's controversial new election law, especially Major League Baseball's decision to move its All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver in response. On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned of unspecified "serious consequences" if corporations and other "parts of the private sector keep dabbling in behaving like a woke parallel government." Later in the day, McConnell told big businesses to "stay out of politics."

Statements like this from McConnell and other prominent Republican officials have led to speculation about the durability of the GOP's long alliance with corporate America on lower corporate taxes, less regulation, and other policies. But McConnell has also been "among the most outspoken champions of the role of big money in elections, promoting the free-flow of undisclosed dollars to campaigns as a form of Constitution-protected free speech," The Associated Press reports.

When McConnell celebrated the Supreme Court lifting political spending limits by "outside" groups in 2010's Citizens United, Politico's Bill Scher notes, he said, "For too long, some in this country have been deprived of full participation in the political process ... the Constitution protects their right to express themselves about political candidates and issues up until Election Day." And a ruling laying the groundwork for Citizens United actually bears McConnell's name, Slate's Mark Joseph Stern adds:

Link to tweet

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[marble falls]

3. He's totally lost his mind. He's the product of Corporate interference in participatory Democracy.

[Claire Oh Nette]

4. Corporations are people!

We must give them an equal voice in politics!
Wait, you can't disagree with me.
Corporations aren't people....

The GOP wants things both ways so much I'm starting to wonder if they're not all secretly bi-sexual, too. Would explain their fascination with other people's pants, I suppose.

[Rural_Progressive]

5. Nah, you see in sports all the time

If a call goes in my favor it's a good call and the ref is brilliant.

If a call goes against me it's a horrible call and the ref is a bum.

For the current GQP, all of this is just a game and all that matters is them winning.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

6. Exactly!

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Well if what he says is true, then why tilt it again with GOP voting restrictions?

[patphil]

8. Citizens United leveled the playing field the way a daisy cutter levels a field.

Utter devastation.

[diane in sf]

9. Complete lying sociopath.