Reckless Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance: Special interests win, we lose
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board/The Star-Led…
January 22, 2010, 5:45AM
... But Thursday, in a 5-4 decision, this supposedly conservative court swept all that away. So now, instead of soliciting their employees or members for voluntary donations to political action committees, unions and corporations can tap their general funds for political causes, allowing them to spend much more.
In a day when special interests already hold our democracy by the throat, the court has helped them tighten their grip.
And it could get worse. Sen. Bill Baroni, a Republican attorney and the state Legislature’s leading expert on campaign finance, warns that this decision opens the door to challenges against New Jersey’s pay-to-play laws, and its ban on political spending by casinos, banks, insurers, and utilities.
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From: Caeser@Caeser.com
Subject: RE: Holy Christ!
Date: January 22, 2010 9:18:53 PM EST
To: Raoul@oldnumberseven.net
I can't even read it, I'm so disgusted with it. This will be the Roe vs Wade for the left.
From: Raoul@oldnumberseven.net
Subject: Re: Holy Christ!
Date: January 22, 2010 9:31:29 PM EST
To: Caeser@Caeser.com
I was thinking Dred Scott v. Sandford, but I can see Roe v. Wade. We, as a country, are so fucked, be left or right, fucked. The schizophrenic corporation can spend as much dough as it likes to help whomever they like! It is fitting that this decision was handed down while Don Blankenship, Massey Energy C.E.O debated Robert Kennedy Jr about knocking the tops off mountains to get at the coal. Blankenship has all ready bought one WV Supreme Court justice. Now he will be able to buy every elected imbecile. Holy Christ, we are fucked.
Nothing like an activist court.
your pal,
Raoul
From: Caeser@Caeser.com
Subject: RE: Holy Christ!
Date: January 22, 2010 9:37:06 PM EST
To: Raoul@oldnumberseven.net
Yep. Fucked with a capital SCREWED. I'm waiting to catch a Senator wearing a corporate lapel pin or something.
It's like the Terminator, except instead of fighting Skynet the humans are fighting Wal-Mart and Goldman Sachs.
Comments are open below. Enjoy your free speech!
In the morning we built the city
In the afternoon walked through its streets
Evening saw us leaving
We wandered through our days as if they would never end
All of us imagined we had endless time to spend
We hardly saw the crossroads and small attention gave
To the landmarks on the journey from the cradle to the grave
Cradle to the grave, cradle to the grave
Did you learn to dream in the morning?
Abandon dreams in the afternoon?
Wait without a hope in the evening?
Did you stand there in the traces and let them feed you lies?
Did you trail along behind them wearing blinkers on your eyes?
Did you kiss the foot that kicked you? Did you thank them for their scorn?
Did you ask for their forgiveness for the act of being born?
Act of being born, act of being born
Did you alter the face of the city?
Make any change in the world you found?
Or did you observe all the warning?
Did you read the trespass notice? Did you keep off the grass?
Did you shuffle off the pavement just to let your betters pass?
Did you learn to keep your mouth shut? Were you seen and never heard?
Did you learn to be obedient and jump to at a word?
Jump to at a word, jump to at a word
And did you ever demand any answer?
The who and the what and the reason why
And did you ever question the setup?
And did you stand aside and let them choose while you took second best?
Did you let them skin the cream off and then give to you the rest?
Did you settle for the shoddy? And did you think it right
To let them rob you right and left and never make a fight?
And never make a fight, never make a fight
What did you learn in the morning?
How much did you know in the afternoon?
Were you content in the evening?
And did they teach you how to question when you were at the school?
Did the factory help you grow? Were you the maker or the tool?
Did the place where you were living enrich your life and then?
Did you mix among the standing of all your fellow men?
All your fellow men, all your fellow men, all your fellow men