Corporate influence unleashed (Lexington Herald-Leader editorial)

[struggle4progress]

If you think special-interest money is already choking democracy, just wait until last week's Supreme Court ruling opens the floodgates on corporate cash ...

To provide an example of the ruling's potential impact, Michael Waldman, executive director of the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University law school, used the example of Exxon-Mobil whose political action committee raised about $1 million in voluntary contributions from employees and officers in 2008.

That's money that could legally be spent to influence elections. Exxon's profits were $45 billion that year — money that was legally blocked from pouring into politics until now ...

Limits on direct corporate spending in elections date back to Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president who pushed through the Tillman Act in 1907 to curb the influence of powerful businesses interests known as Robber Barons ...

http://www.kentucky.com/editorials/story/1109147.html

[elleng]

1. Thats Lexington, KENTUCKY!

Home of (I will not type his name. ;( )

[struggle4progress]

2. Without a hint, many of us will have no clue what you are saying

[elleng]

4. OP is Editorial in Lexington, KY newspaper.

It means something to me, as some 'important' repugs represent Kentucky.

[DrDan]

5. mmmmm`

[struggle4progress]

6. He should have come to mind immediately. But I'm slow sometimes. Thanks.

[DrDan]

7. I hate to waste my beautiful mind with thought of him also. . . .

[Hekate]

3. KnR