{"id":6853,"date":"2012-01-21T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T08:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6853"},"modified":"2012-01-21T00:01:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T08:01:50","slug":"crappy-birthday-citizens-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/21\/crappy-birthday-citizens-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Crappy Birthday Citizens United"},"content":{"rendered":"

The anti-Constitutional decision, known as Citizens United<\/em>, instituted by five extreme activist Injustices, has been much in the news of late.  I considered joining the fray sooner, but decided to wait until the birthday of if this ignoble atrocity.  To make matters worse, Citizens United just hit home for me, as I have been bombarded with television advertising from faux-moderate Teabagger, Rob Cornilles.  Today I learned who is paying for it from a DCCC email.  Here it is in part.<\/font><\/p>\n

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We knew it would come to this. Voters in Oregon\u2019s vote by mail only election have already started to receive ballots and sure enough Washington Republicans have swooped in with a television ad buy distorting Democrat Suzanne Bonamici\u2019s record with half-truths, mistruths and lies.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Now we\u2019ve learned her Republican opponent Rob Cornilles has received thousands of dollars from the billionaire Koch Brothers\u2019 business PAC. This Oregon special election race is in its final throes and we need to have Suzanne\u2019s back.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Be part of our people-powered movement and fight back. <\/font>Help us raise $30,000 for Suzanne by Monday\u2019s media buy deadline for her immediate rapid response operation.<\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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Please contribute to Suzanne today for her rapid response operation before Monday\u2019s media buy deadline.<\/a><\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s right.  Rob Cornilles is a Koch sucker. The five filthy fascists pictured above made this, and the pollution of other elections all over this nation, possible.<\/font><\/p>\n

There are things Congress can do, if Democrats can get sufficient traction in Congress to overcome Republican obstruction, but the way to permanently undo this travesty requires a Constitutional amendment.  I\u2019m sure you must have seen Robert Reich\u2019s excellent video<\/a> by now, but here it is just in case.<\/font><\/p>\n