There are many amendments that have been proposed whose sponsors claim will abolish corporate personhood and/or declare that money is not free speech. Here is a discussion of the problems with the four types that have been introduced in Congress and of two that are being promoted by various groups and individuals to address these [...]
02 Jan
On Saturday, during in an appearance on WSUM 91.7, the University of Wisconsin’s student radio station located in Madison, Darcy Richardson encouraged his supporters in neighboring Iowa to come out and caucus for the Occupy Iowa and Healthcare NOT Warfare efforts to elect a slate of progressive, uncommitted delegates in this Tuesday’s caucuses. Aldous C. [...]
14 Sep
The GOP’s Mark Amodei easily defeated Democrat Kate Marshall and independent candidate Helmuth Lehmann, a political novice from Reno, to capture Nevada’s heavily Republican 2nd Congressional District seat Tuesday night. Amodei will take the seat of former U.S. Rep. Dean Heller, R-Carson City, who was appointed to the U.S. Senate in May after former U.S. [...]
14 Sep
In a race largely viewed as a referendum on President Barack Obama’s economic policies, Republican Bob Turner, a retired television executive perhaps best known for producing“The Jerry Springer Show,” easily defeated Democratic state Assemblyman David Weprin to capture New York’s traditionally-Democratic 9th Congressional District seat vacated in June by former Rep. Anthony Weiner. Turner, who [...]
12 Sep
With Republican Bob Turner clinging to a narrow lead over Democrat David Weprin in New York’s 9th Congressional District, little-known Christopher P. Hoeppner of the Socialist Workers Party could be a major factor in the outcome of Tuesday’s hotly-contested special election to replace disgraced former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner. According to a Public Policy Polling [...]
24 Aug
Former Sen. Arlen Specter, who was defeated in his bid for a sixth term in the spring of 2010 shortly after switching parties, is reportedly finishing an autobiography — his third memoir — scheduled for release in late March. Called “Life Among the Cannibals: A Political Career, a Tea Party Uprising, and the End of Governing [...]
20 Aug
Former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin ruled out a political comeback next year in a statement posted on his political action committee’s website on Friday. Feingold, who was defeated in a bid for a fourth term in 2010 — losing to Tea Party-backed Republican Ron Johnson by slightly more than 100,000 votes — had [...]
18 Aug
Consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren, who said that she will make a formal decision about challenging Republican Sen. Scott Brown shortly after Labor Day, formed an exploratory committee earlier today, bringing the potential number of Democrats hoping to unseat Edward M. Kennedy’s unlikely successor to eight. The Harvard University law professor and former chair of the five-member TARP [...]
13 Jul
In the aftermath of last week’s dismal jobs report, showing that the U.S. economy created far fewer jobs than economists expected while unemployment inched up to 9.2 percent, nearly two-thirds of the American people believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released earlier today shows that 63 percent of Americans [...]
01 Jun
Shortly after Sarah Palin’s magical mystery bus tour arrived in Philadelphia yesterday, the diva of the Tea Party movement and her family took a rushed half-hour tour of Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell Pavilion. As a crowd of onlookers and a horde of media cameras tracked the former governor’s every step, it reminded me [...]
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"Previously, Alabama state laws against corporate power were used to attack the civil rights organization the NAACP in the 1950's. ..."by TL
"As well intentioned as the proposal with some good features it potentially guts the right of assembly (and "association" that ..."
17 Jan