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This is great news. States and counties around the country are beginning to defy the absurd US Supreme Court ruling that legalizes political bribery by corporations as a constitutional right protected under the 1st amendment.
WASHINGTON -- The Montana Supreme Court has put itself on a collision course with the U.S. Supreme Court by upholding a century-old state law that bans corporate spending in state and local political campaigns.
The law, which was passed by Montana voters in 1912 to combat Gilded Age corporate control over much of Montana's government, states that a "corporation may not make ... an expenditure in connection with a candidate or a political party that supports or opposes a candidate or a political party." In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its landmark Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision, struck down a similar federal statute, holding that independent electoral spending by corporations "do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption" that such laws were enacted to combat....
States are flexing their muscles in a number of ways. I guess they always have but I do know we have never had more need for them to do so. We have never had a federal govt. that was this tyrannical, not in our lifetimes anyway.
Last edited by CaseyB; 01-21-2012 at 04:00 AM..
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[quote=Sunnysee;22635376]States are flexing their muscles in a number of ways. I guess they always have but I do know we have never had more need for them to do so. We have never had a federal govt. that was this tyrannical, not in our lifetimes anyway.
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You do know, don't you, that Obama criticized the decision in the Citizens United case, while Gingrich praised it? That means Obama is on the same side of the issue as the Montana state government.
States are flexing their muscles in a number of ways. I guess they always have but I do know we have never had more need for them to do so. We have never had a federal govt. that was this tyrannical, not in our lifetimes anyway.
Millions of us have screamed for years for us to use our common sense and drill more of our oil. Now, Texas is fast-tracking this and is in a true Oil Boom! I've never been more "proud" to be a Texan, and I don't mean arrogant, but just proud in a rhetorical sense.
This, after our Communist president telling Brazil that we wanted to be big customers of THEIR oil bonanaza.
Off topic and you do know that oil is traded on the open market...don't you?
Who'd have thought that Montana would be so progressive! I love Montana even more now.
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