Hypocrite Ted Cruz Too Scared to Vote With Fellow Republicans to Keep Citizens United
Last week, the US Senate voted on a proposed constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision and put more regulations on corporate money in elections. A majority of senators voted in favor of the measure, with the final vote coming in at 54-42. Not a single Republican voted in favor of the amendment. In fact, they filibustered the measure. (However, since it was a constitutional amendment, it would have required a 2/3 majority –67 votes– in order to move forward.)
Texas senator John Cornyn was one of the 42 Republicans who voted against the proposed amendment. But there was one Texas Republican who didn’t join him–Senator Ted Cruz.
It’s not that Cruz has remained silent on the issue of Citizens United, in fact, quite the opposite is true. Cruz has been his usual hyperbolic self, saying that the amendment would “repeal the free speech protections of the First Amendment” and predicting that it would cause a dictatorial hellscape where Congress would have “absolute authority to regulate the political speech of every single American with no limitations whatsoever.”
Of course, these assertions are patently untrue. The amendment would only give the government the ability to regulate the amount of corporate money that is spent on campaigns. Limiting corporate spending actually increases the influence that American people can have on elections, since the vast majority of citizens don’t have the ability to spend millions of dollars influencing a race.
Read more: http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/18221/hypocrite-ted-cruz-scared-vote-fellow-republicans-keep-citizens-united
