Comments on: Supreme Court Scratching Corporate Backs http://www.jabmyeyes.com/2010/01/23/supreme-court-scratching-corporate-backs/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed sometimes the news makes me want to jab my eyes out Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:52:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Greg http://www.jabmyeyes.com/2010/01/23/supreme-court-scratching-corporate-backs/comment-page-1/#comment-107 Greg Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:53:58 +0000 http://www.jabmyeyes.com/?p=432#comment-107 Candidate Barack Obama was one sharp speaker, but he would not have been heard, and certainly would not have won, without the astonishing outpouring of donations from two million Americans. It was an unprecedented uprising-by-PayPal, overwhelming the old fat-cat sources of funding. Well, kiss that small-donor revolution goodbye. Under the Court's new rules, progressive list serves won't stand a chance against the resources of new "citizens" such as CNOOC, the China National Offshore Oil Corporation. Maybe UBS (United Bank of Switzerland), which faces U.S. criminal prosecution and a billion-dollar fine for fraud, might be tempted to invest in a few Senate seats. A foreign government can, veiled behind a corporate treasury, dump money into ballot battles. Candidate Barack Obama was one sharp speaker, but he would not have been heard, and certainly would not have won, without the astonishing outpouring of donations from two million Americans. It was an unprecedented uprising-by-PayPal, overwhelming the old fat-cat sources of funding.

Well, kiss that small-donor revolution goodbye. Under the Court’s new rules, progressive list serves won’t stand a chance against the resources of new “citizens” such as CNOOC, the China National Offshore Oil Corporation. Maybe UBS (United Bank of Switzerland), which faces U.S. criminal prosecution and a billion-dollar fine for fraud, might be tempted to invest in a few Senate seats. A foreign government can, veiled behind a corporate treasury, dump money into ballot battles.

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