Is Sanders the only person running who will try to overturn Citizens United?

[GreatGazoo]

HRC would be unlikely to want it overturned until maybe a 2nd term. If she is able to use the Super PACs and Wall St money to suppress Sanders and fight off Trump in the GE, then we should expect that she will want access to that money for her 2nd GE.

No one on the GOP side is saying anything about it, but of course Anderson Cooper is only asking them what kind of music they like, how they relax and other questions he seems to have borrowed from an episode of "The Dating Game."

Bernie Sanders has the consistency on this issue that we can trust. If he makes it to the WH it won't be due to Citizens United but rather despite it and he will be highly motivated to get rid of it before the run for his 2nd term begins.

Yuuuge cross over issue btw:
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/06/02/poll-finds-80-republicans-agree-bernie-sanders-citizens-united.html

[brooklynite]

1. You realize that Clinton called for overturning CU through SC appointments? 2 weeks before Sanders?

[Beowulf]

4. Yet, she accepts millions from corporations

She can talk a good game, but won't risk doing anything.

[brooklynite]

8. You think she should unilaterally disarm?

[Beowulf]

19. Right now, her opponent doesn't accept PAC money,

yet her PACs are spending millions campaigning against him. She's using nuclear weapons against an opponent who doesn't have them and has sworn never to acquire them. The General Election is a different matter, and the unilateral disarming argument fits that situation. But right now, her opponent is disarmed, so your argument doesn't fit. Using PAC money against Bernie simply reinforces the notion that her corporate supporters want her to crush Bernie. She takes their money and does their work.

[brooklynite]

20. Right now, her opponent apparently doesn't have the money to run a national campaign...

...according to his supporters here, he's not vigorously campaigning in the Southern Super Tuesday States because they're not "cost effective".

[daleanime]

28. I'm sorry that I've been unable to sent Bernie enough money....

that he could meet your expectations. I hope you find in your heart to forgive me.

[brooklynite]

29. I thought he was raising more than Hillary was...

The problem appears to be his burn rate for Iowa (loss) and New Hampshire (win, but limited delegates).

[Beowulf]

33. Of course he doesn't.

Superpac money has driven up the cost of campaigning. Hillary can afford to drive Sanders out of the race simply by forcing him to spend money. Her tactics are cynical and only perpetuate the oligarchy's stranglehold on power. She embodies Bernie's point about the corrupting influence of corporate money.

[CorporatistNation]

32. TOTALLY! HILLARY IS 100% BOUGHT!

So Hillary supporters TRUST Hillary? Really...

[Shadowflash]

21. Yup.

There is a HUGE difference between talking the talk, and saying what you think people want to hear to get their vote, and walking the walk and living your convictions.

[virtualobserver]

5. We don't believe her.

We know that Bernie will because he has already disavowed Super PACS.

[GreatGazoo]

7. but she can't win without that money

While she says “Sen. Sanders and I both want to get secret, unaccountable money out of politics,” she won't release the transcripts of whatever words and phrase she sold to Goldman Sachs. And she goes back to those people more often than most of go to an ATM:

http://freebeacon.com/politics/hillary-clinton-goes-back-to-well-hits-up-financial-industry-for-fundraisers/

[Barack_America]

9. She'll use CU to its full advantage to get into the White House...

...then may pay some lip service to rid of it.

It's that pesky lack of principles that is synonymous with the name "Clinton".

[FreakinDJ]

27. You have a link to prove that - or did you just make that up

Its not like a lot of people actually believe Clinton

[fredamae]

2. I do believe

Sanders is the Only one who Will give We, the People the Only real opportunity, we've had thus far to actually accomplish this.

[azmom]

3. He has shown he can be trusted on this issue.

Hillary is just giving it lip service. She and all her buddies are addicted to money in politics.

[winter is coming]

6. I believe he's the only candidate who's said it.

He's certainly the only candidate who actually means it.

[Gothmog]

10. The only way to destroy Citizens United is for a Democrat to be POTUS

President Obama was against Citizens United but had to use a super pac in 2012 to keep the contest close. Hillary Clinton is against Citizens United and has committed to only appoint SCOTUS justices who will vote to overturn this decision https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/05/14/hillary-clintons-litmus-test-for-supreme-court-nominees-a-pledge-to-overturn-citizens-united/

Hillary Clinton told a group of her top fundraisers Thursday that if she is elected president, her nominees to the Supreme Court will have to share her belief that the court's 2010 Citizens United decision must be overturned, according to people who heard her remarks.

Clinton's emphatic opposition to the ruling, which allowed corporations and unions to spend unlimited sums on independent political activity, garnered the strongest applause of the afternoon from the more than 200 party financiers gathered in Brooklyn for a closed-door briefing from the Democratic candidate and her senior aides, according to some of those present.

"She got major applause when she said would not name anybody to the Supreme Court unless she has assurances that they would overturn" the decision, said one attendee, who, like others, requested anonymity to describe the private session.

If the make-up of the court does not change by 2017, four of the justices will be 78 years of age or older by the time the next president is inaugurated.

This is the only practical way to undo the damage done by Citizen United in that it will be impossible to get a constitutional amendment through congress and the states to undo this decision. That means that if you want to get rid of Citizens United, then one must support a candidate who can win in 2016 and support the most viable general election candidate.

Sanders has no chance of winning in the general election and so the only way to destroy CU is to vote for Clinton

[kgnu_fan]

11. Hilary is benefited from Citizen United.

[dchill]

31. is benefitting...

[djean111]

12. Yes. Whatever Hillary says or said is just campaign blather, and changes with the polls and focus

groups. I believe anything like this will just be tossed aside, with at the most a little airy oh, the GOP won't let me do that!

[hobbit709]

13. There will be no attempts by either the R wing or the D wing of the Corporate Party.

[Nitram]

15. I disagree.

Clinton will try to overturn CU if elected.

[hobbit709]

16. Hope you're not holding your breath.

[Nitram]

14. No, of course not. Clinton has long been agaisnt CU, and has promised to try to overturn it.

Don't believe everything you read about Clinton on DU.

[Zorra]

17. Yes. nt

[JTFrog]

18. Why can't anyone be bothered to find out why Citizen's United is a thing?

And then try and tell me that Hillary has benefited or Hillary won't fight the fuckers who went after her so hard.

Are you people kidding me? So many blinded by hate.

[Skinner]

22. Hillary also believes Citizens United should be overturned. (nt)

[yallerdawg]

23. Citizens United...

was all about Hillary!

Who are these people?

[Punkingal]

24. Does she really? I'm not being snarky, Skinner.

I just don't know what to believe anymore.

(If you ever decide to do moderators again, I would volunteer again. 2004 was delightful compared to now.)

[EndElectoral]

25. Trump is against Citizens United

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/trump-wrong-about-basically-everything-except

Trump is wrong about basically everything – except this
08/16/15 09:44 AM—UPDATED 08/16/15 11:24 AM

By Marge Baker

Few people guessed that Donald Trump would be sitting ahead in the polls at this stage in the presidential election. Fewer, if any, guessed he would be a vocal critic of our big money election system.

At the Republican primary debate earlier this month, moderator Brett Baier asked Trump about something he said in a previous interview: “When you give, politicians do whatever the hell you want them to do.”

“You’d better believe it,” Trump interjected with his familiar bravado. The candid description of trading campaign cash for favors that followed revealed everything that is wrong with our government of, by, and for big donors. “That’s a broken system,” Trump concluded. (And revealingly, none of his opponents on the stage denied it.)

This is not the first time the real estate mogul has called attention to the way our political system rewards big donors while shutting everyday voters out of the process. Trump has been critical of Citizens United, the infamous 2010 Supreme Court decision that paved the way for the modern super PAC elections with which we’ve become all too accustomed. When several of his opponents flew out to a California resort to hobnob with billionaire donors associated with the Koch brothers, he knocked them as “puppets.”

[Waiting For Everyman]

26. Her paymasters would feel dissed.

We can't have that now, can we?

Mega-money doesn't just buy elections, it also buys changes to our LAWS. Things that were illegal become legal. It's a predator's paradise.

Our law has been and is being bought by these donors and sold by our representatives. I call that what it is, treason.

I'm glad to see that even Repubs are onto this, and not having it. Hence, their votes for Trump. We have a much better choice, an actually GOOD choice, but will we be smart enough and honest enough and responsible enough to take it?