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Old 01-21-2010, 07:27 PM   #10 (permalink)
Baraka_Guru
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Originally Posted by pan6467 View Post
Very simple solution. Find candidates that refuse the money and will work on a political finance amendment to end all this.
Corporations still cannot give money directly to federal political campaigns. What they can do is spend as much money as they want on political ads. That's the issue here. And the argument is that this is a right protected by the 1st Amendment. I don't know if there is a simple solution here.
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