41 industry leaders call on Congress to halt corporate ‘bribery’(Supreme Court ruling)

[deminks]

http://rawstory.com/2010/01/business-leaders-finance-ruling-extremely-troubling/

WASHINGTON -- Forty-one business leaders have co-signed letters sent to Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress voicing their opposition to Thursday's Supreme Court ruling that frees corporations to spend unlimited amounts on influencing elections.

"Is there a difference between campaign contributions and bribery?" said Alan Hassenfeld, chairman of Hasbro, Inc, who co-signed the letter.

"It is long past the time to stop requiring that our elected officials moonlight as telemarketers raising money for their re-election campaigns rather then devoting all their time to solving the problems before this nation," he said.

The letter read: "As business leaders, we believe the current political fundraising system is already broken. The Supreme Court decision further exacerbates this problem."

Signatories include current and former high-ranking corporate executives of enterprises such as Playboy Enterprises, MetLife, Ben & Jerry's, and Delta Airlines, among others.

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Letters are at the link. These are some businesses we might consider supporting.

[Zorra]

1. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to understand how dangerous this SCROTUS

(Supreme Court Republicans Of The United States) decision is.

It's a deadly threat to everyone, including corporate executives

[inna]

7. LOL @ "Scrotus", KR to the OP, nt

[PATRICK]

11. Corporate favor depend

on how much money power, connection power and utter ruthlessness and even foreign control they have to out compete with their confreres. Those are the very corporations who produce nothing essential to human life, thrive on cannibalism and disaster and desertiification and who will sacrifice even their logical business for their sheer power agenda. Access to the Treasury bypasses the consumer and their rivals and gives them more destructive power and money they need no longer provide an actual service for.

The money industry. The armament industry. Chemical, drug and tobacco industries. Fossil fuel industries. Food, water and energy cartels. Manufacturing moved to anti-democratic regimes with powerful smart agendas.

If the money swollen egos of MOST business people were not greed besotted into suicidal tea bagger idiocy they would fight harder than the people to stop this collapse of the pyramid until only the top remains. Somehow crooked pirates who collapsed the economy around their ears are as legitimate to business ideology(Mammonite) as Sarah Palin welcomed as a member of the American "journalist" fellowship of self congratulation and mutual defense.

[fascisthunter]

2. 41 is a start... but we need a Massive Movement to Overturn this

[roguevalley]

6. every movement starts with small steps. At least business isn't a

complete monolith. Hasbro has my bucks and so does the rest. We need to tell them so.

[fascisthunter]

10. Hey, I'm with Ya... every "bit" helps

I didn't mean to sound so negative

[roguevalley]

15. you didn't sweetie. its been a hard pill for all of us.

[blue neen]

3. There is a wide variety of industries represented.

I agree, we should support those businesses. Thank God that someone in the corporate world sees the light.

[ThomWV]

4. It might not be a bad idea to contact whoever it takes at your own company and see if they'll sign u

[Hekate]

5. Good news. KnR.

[Spazito]

8. Excellent letter

Thanks for posting this, much appreciated.

Recommended.

[blm]

9. For starters we should NOT INCLUDE any of these on our corporate flag....

Playboy comes to mind. Not to mention, they have long supported liberal causes with both money and heavily researched articles.

[Echo In Light]

12. K&R

[donheld]

13. 41 businesses to be very proud of.

[Doctor_J]

14. I don't think these folks have come to grips with what happened

yesterday. Roberts and the rest of his cabal declared that Congress can't pass a law outlawing this bribery. I am sure that most of these signators (except maybe Ben & Jerry) cheered Roberts' and Alito's confirmation to the bench, and ever other step toward fascism over the last 15 years, and now they're complaining???

[drm604]

16. They're complaining because this could lead to a spending battle between corporations.

This could lead to a spending battle between corporations to determine which ones controls Washington, and which ones get squashed. A few big ones could come out on top controlling everything and the others will have gone broke trying to survive. It appears that at least 41 of them recognize this possibility.

[slay]

17. K&R

Glad to know not ALL corporations are behind this right wing take over.