“Free Speech Wins Big” in McCutcheon Ruling? It’s FALSE NEWS!

[DemocratsForProgress]

Sandy Todd: “Free Speech Wins Big” in McCutcheon Ruling? It’s FALSE NEWS!

The news hit the political front with the expected clash of ideologies. The left was appalled at yet another blow that would flood the political process with a tidal wave of cash. The right hailed their newfound “freedom” to extend their political reach with that tidal wave reaching across the entire nation.

While most of the media plainly state the ruling as striking down limits on campaign contributions, few are willing to challenge the Roberts Court claim that these limits “intrude without justification on a citizen’s ability to exercise ‘the most fundamental First Amendment activities’”.

Is the real purpose of campaign finance caps, as Investor’s Business Daily states, an unjustified means of “trying to prevent people financing their own political speech”?

Fact: McCutcheon v. FEC ends over 100 years of battling corruption through limits on campaign spending.

The 1800s were rife with accusations of individuals buying their appointments to the US Senate through the state legislators. One of the more notorious incidents involved William Clark, the “Copper King” of Montana. His bribery of state legislators was so blatant that the Senate refused to seat him after his first campaign, prompting this bombast from Mark Twain: “no one has helped to send him to the Senate who did not know that his proper place was the penitentiary, with a chain and ball on his legs.”

More at: http://www.democratsforprogress.com/2014/04/06/free-speech-wins-big-in-mccutcheon-ruling-its-false-news/

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1. the Oregonian got hammered in LTTE for this meme

Readers did NOT appreciate the RWNJ headline.

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2. "Free speech" is everything but...

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