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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Schumer: SCOTUS has just predetermined the winners of next November’s election!

Chuck Schumer, who has been known to raise a dollar or two from Wall Street himself, blasts the Citizens United ruling:

This activist and far reaching decision is even worse than we had feared. This opens the floodgates and allows special interest money to overflow our elections and undermine our democracy. The bottom line is, the Supreme Court has just predetermined the winners of next November’s election. It won’t be the Republican or the Democrats and it won't be the American people; it will be Corporate America.

Posted by Ben Smith 12:48 PM

OBAMA IS NOT HAPPY EITHER...

With its ruling today, the Supreme Court has given a green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics. It is a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans. This ruling gives the special interests and their lobbyists even more power in Washington — while undermining the influence of average Americans who make small contributions to support their preferred candidates. That's why I am instructing my Administration to get to work immediately with Congress on this issue. We are going to talk with bipartisan Congressional leaders to develop a forceful response to this decision. The public interest requires nothing less.
Posted by Ben Smith 01:36 PM

1 comment:

Mary Ellen said...

Ya know...there is a solution to this problem, the candidates are FORCED to take their money for campaigns, they can actually say "no thanks". Wouldn't that be special?