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A divided Supreme Court ruled the ban on corporate spending for campaign ads violated the right to free speech. The ruling demolished the foundation of campaign finance laws. Jan Crawford reports.

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1. pioneerpaddler Says:
   January 23rd, 2010 at 8:11 am

   - Each human ( U.S. …
   – Each human ( U.S. citizen ) within the
   corporations already can individually vote once, and
   speak out or donate anytime to or for their chosen
   political candidate.

   - Corporations are entities, and Not U.S. citizens.

   - Corporate VOICES are ALREADY HEARD on an
   individual HUMAN basis within the corp…
   - The court has mistakenly given foreign corporate
   ENTITIES the speaking voice rights of a
   U.S. HUMANs citizenship.
   - And so, what is a corp. ? – an entity ?..
   or a human U.S. citizen ?

2. Joe402 Says:
   January 23rd, 2010 at 8:11 am

   Republicans and …
   Republicans and teabaggers will always be pro-business and pro-wall street. ALWAYS.

3. Goalie3533 Says:
   January 23rd, 2010 at 8:11 am

   Long story short, …
   Long story short, corporations now own all elections. When your local walmart wants to knock out all local competitors in your town, they’ll simply blast your neighborhood with ads to convince you to elect their puppet mayors & board members.
   When foreign companies from places like China feel the current president isn’t in their best interest, they’ll spend hundreds of millions to convince you why you should vote for the “other guy”, who happens to be a puppet for that particular gov’t. Fun!

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