2004-03-28
corporate largesse | While the Federal Election Commission does what it can to further weaken non-profits, friends of the powerful continue to rake funds that might legitimately belong to shareholders into the piles going to executives and corporate board members | When it is that these two streams of fiscal sewage will officially cojoin (they are certainly already there unofficially) is a matter of conjecture, but surely somebody, somewhere, somehow, shall recognize that what's goiong on here is a form of treason | Think about it |
May need to pay heed one of the warnings stated by People for the American Way on how this crap adveresely impacts on real free speech:
May need to pay heed one of the warnings stated by People for the American Way on how this crap adveresely impacts on real free speech:
- The chilling effect of the proposed rules on free speech cannot be overstated. Merely expressing an opinion about an officeholder's policies could turn a nonprofit group overnight into a federally regulated political committee with crippling fund-raising restrictions.
