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Midnight Writer

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3. Money is now speech and corporations are people. Insanity. And they claim to be "originalists".

Sat Apr 16, 2022, 11:14 AM

Apr 2022

Moscow Mitch claimed, in the immediate aftermath of the Citizens United decision, that he had no problem with unlimited money in politics, as long as the people contributing the money were identified, and thus accountable for their "speech". He claimed he would pursue legislation to shine light on the donors, so they could not hide behind anonymous organizations.

Then he promptly fought against any disclosure of donor information.

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