Tag: campaign finance
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All In
Talk about putting all your chips on the table. I may be the only person in Georgia who didn’t know this, but do you realize how much of their own money the Sinkfield’s loaned her campaign for Secretary of State? Her reports show the following loans from Georganna and Richard Sinkfield: 5/5/2010: $2,000; 5/7/2010: $5,000;…
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Citizens United v. FEC: SCOTUS says corporations have free speech rights, too
Today, the Supreme Court issued a long-awaited ruling in Citizens United v. FEC, the case about “Hillary: the Movie” that decided whether restrictions upon corporate financing of political advertising impermissibly infringed upon the first amendment rights of those corporations. The 5-4 decision upheld the disclosure and disclaimer portions of the campaign finance law for corporate-financed…