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Reply to Nye Bevan (Reply #16)

Tue Jul 17, 2012, 01:02 PM

Jul 2012

good read:

Why the ACLU Is Wrong About 'Citizens United'
http://www.thenation.com/article/166954/why-aclu-wrong-about-citizens-united#

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Burt Neuborne, the Inez Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties at New York University Law School, is the founding legal director of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. He served as national legal director of the ACLU during the Reagan administration, and has represented Senators John McCain and Russ Feingold in litigation over campaign finance reform.

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"Corporations are people, my friend"? [View all] ProSense Jul 2012 OP

TAX contributions over five thousand dollars at the fifteen percent rate. MADem Jul 2012 #1

It's illegal for corporations to make campaign contributions in Federal elections, Nye Bevan Jul 2012 #10

I'm talking about PAC money, individual money, money from any legal resource. MADem Jul 2012 #24

I'm for public financing of elections, with no other monetary sources. Deep13 Jul 2012 #2

Full campaign finance reform. n/t ProSense Jul 2012 #3

+1 Scuba Jul 2012 #4

Would you allow a corporation to publish a book that criticized an election candidate Nye Bevan Jul 2012 #5

Yes ProSense Jul 2012 #6

So you're OK with a corporation spending a billion dollars to send a book to every voter Nye Bevan Jul 2012 #7

Yeah, ProSense Jul 2012 #8

How about cable TV? On-demand? Satellite? Youtube channels? Nye Bevan Jul 2012 #9

Are you being obtuse? ProSense Jul 2012 #11

Actually I didn't. So I Googled it. Nye Bevan Jul 2012 #12

Good ProSense Jul 2012 #14

My feeling is that if the book is published in the usual way... Deep13 Jul 2012 #19

I prefer the full disclosure route to the book-banning route (nt) Nye Bevan Jul 2012 #21

Me too. But I do support banning corporate money for books. Deep13 Jul 2012 #22

Ordinary people can pool their resources with other like-minded folk. Nye Bevan Jul 2012 #23

I have the same position as the ACLU on this. Nye Bevan Jul 2012 #13

Honestly, that's why I no longer support the ACLU. Deep13 Jul 2012 #20

Interesting that we have one poster who totally support Citizens United. GoneOffShore Jul 2012 #15

Here's the ACLU's explanation of why they support it. Nye Bevan Jul 2012 #16

I know they did - And it's one of the few times when I have not been happy with the ACLU. GoneOffShore Jul 2012 #17

Here's a ProSense Jul 2012 #18