Two-Thirds Of Small Business Owners Say Citizens United Ruling Hurts Them

[kpete]

http://mainstreetalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Release-smallbusinesspoll-CitizensUnited.pdf

Two-thirds of American small business leaders believe the controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United v. FEC case handed down two years ago on January 21 hurts small companies.

In fact, only nine percent of small business leaders thought the ruling positive, according to an independent national survey of 500 small business leaders released today by the American Sustainable Business Council, Main Street Alliance and Small Business Majority.

The survey also found that 88 percent of small business owners hold a negative view of the role money plays in politics, with 68 percent viewing it very negatively. [...]



“As we approach the two-year anniversary of the Citizens United case, the verdict is loud and clear: the ruling hurts the small businesses that we need to be strong for economic recovery,” said David Levine, executive director of the American Sustainable Business Council. “Business owners are frustrated because they have to compete with big business bank accounts to be heard, and they are fighting back.”

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http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/01/19/406772/two-thirds-of-small-business-owners-say-citizens-united-ruling-hurts-them/

[RC]

1. I am seeing this overturned.

Too many people are waking up and looking around and getting pissed.

[Bonhomme Richard]

2. That's because the two thirds actually are small business owners not like....

the Bechtel size companies listed as small business.