{"id":4773,"date":"2011-05-07T02:24:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T09:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4773"},"modified":"2011-05-07T02:24:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T09:24:48","slug":"how-citizens-united-is-screwing-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/07\/how-citizens-united-is-screwing-you\/","title":{"rendered":"How Citizens United Is Screwing You"},"content":{"rendered":"

Then the extreme Republican activists on SCOTUS decided Citizens United<\/em> amiss, I knew that a flood of criminal corporate funding was on the way to disseminate Republican lies and brainwash a public all too prone to apathy and political laziness.  If that was not bad enough, they have an entire so-called news network acting as their propaganda ministry, and most of the rest of the media unwilling to call the lies.  Therefore spreading accurate information must be a grass roots effort.  That is all the more clear when you realize just how bad Citizens United<\/em> is screwing you.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Last year, in perhaps the \u201cmost consequential Supreme Court decision in decades<\/a>,\u201d the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) invalidated a sixty-three year-old ban on corporate and union money directly funding individual candidates in federal elections<\/a>. The SCOTUS decision sent shockwaves throughout our democracy, with many fearing that it would lead to an overwhelming amount of corporate money flooding out the voices of ordinary people<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Now, the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics has put out a comprehensive analysis<\/a> to assess the flood of campaign money in last year\u2019s election. One of the most shocking results of the analysis finds that the decision appeared to have a sharply partisan and ideological result. The group found that spending by Super PACs and all outside spending strongly tilted towards conservatives, and that spending by undisclosed donors actually was eight times higher for conservatives than liberals, with conservatives spending $119.6 million to liberals\u2019 $15.7 million<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Not only did this money help elect a more conservative Congress, but it also is having a lingering effect on our campaign system. Last week, Democratic strategists announced that they will be forming Priorities USA Action, an Independent Expenditure PAC that will be relying<\/a> on a strategy of collecting unlimited funds from undiclosed [sic] donors similar to the one that conservative groups used in 2010\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

It remains my belief that, until we have 100% public finance for all federal campaigns, we will have the best government money has bought.  Public financing gives elected officials an incentive to represent their constituents, and frees their time to actually govern instead of having to raise several thousand dollars every day, seven days a week.<\/font><\/p>\n

And just incase anyone forgot\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n

Corporations are NOT people!<\/font><\/h2>\n

Money is NOT speech!<\/font><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Then the extreme Republican activists on SCOTUS decided Citizens United amiss, I knew that a flood of criminal corporate funding was on the way to disseminate Republican lies and brainwash a public all too prone to apathy and political laziness.  If that was not bad enough, they have an entire so-called news network acting as […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}