The easiest way for the Congress to limit the ability of corporations is to make it a law that any corporation or subsidiary that wishes to directly promote a candidate has to have its CEO state on camera I’m CEO of XYZ and I support XYZ Candidate running for office in XYZ district/state.

Hot Air — Pelosi: Hey, we Dems have a lot in common with those Astroturfing Tea Partiers, or something
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/28/pelosi-hey-we-dems-have-a-lot-in-common-with-those-astroturfing-tea-partiers-or-something/

Pelosi has as much in common with the Tea Party movement as a Teabagger would with the Girl Scouts.

We already know. Wall Street, Redmond Washington (home of Microsoft), Bill Gates, Silicon Valley, Madison Avenue, these are all really big contributors to the party of Pelozi, Barney Frank, Whitewater, The Big Bank Bailout, and the Porkulus.

That is, the corporations that Dems condemn are their biggest champions.

The Supreme Court decision went in favor of a little bitty NON-PROFIT plaintiff that had something to say.

And it’s funny they changed the rules for free speech in that unconstitutional legislation for only the lead-up to the most important time for free speech to be free: right before elections.

Why should NEWS CORPORATIONS like ABC, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, CBS, be the only CORPORATIONS that are able to say what they want to about anybody?

What a grand hypocrisy.

–trutherator

Good point truth. The best way to combat this is to make it all transparent.

Does this mean that Nancy admits that she is an artificially motivated racist who is prone to exact violence at any given moment? That is the tea Party image she has forwarded in the past year.

Now the fact that many of these giant corporations now have the ability to monetarily support to candidates – and which party do you think they’re going to choose to put their money behind? – is a different matter alltogether.

What are you trying to say here? Do you have evidence, or personal knowledge that you’re not letting on. Seems like there are plenty of companies that support Democrats. Of course, if you want to follow the more traditional, “Republicans represent the rich,” you have to ignore that, ignore the majority of celebrities, ignore Hollywood produced ads, and reality itself. But this is Mediaite… par for the course.

Sadly, BuyBlue.org has shut down (apparently a few years ago… where have I been?), but I’m pretty sure their book is still available. It was a very interesting study of where corporate money went… pretty much down the middle for most place. Of course, you’d have to go on ignoring reality to think differently.

marcus.lewis says:
February 28, 2010 at 1:21 pm

Not a bad idea. Although, many companies donate to both candidates… albeit one perhaps a little more than another. So let’s say that if a company produces a commercial, then need to have a disclaimer at the end listing all participating companies individually, not an over-arching organization.

There have always been big corporations backing the Dems. G.E., Microsoft, the Ford Foundation, etc. And lots of rich backers such as George Soros and most of Hollywood. But it’s much easier to just say Republicans are the party of the rich and not look any deeper. Makes a much better sound bite.