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Washinton Examiner: Democrats: Free speech for me, not for thee

By Alliance Alert

Washinton Examiner: "The [DISCLOSE Act] is full of draconian restrictions on individual political speech expressed via corporations, but gives privileged status to the Democrats' union masters. A provision pushed by Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Bob Brady, for example, allows unions to transfer unlimited funds among affiliated groups to pay for political ads with no disclosure whatever. That makes campaign funding more transparent?" | More from the Examiner's Mark Hemingway: "So unions now get nearly unrestricted, undisclosed political spending. ... Further, under the DISCLOSE Act if a company has more than $7 million in government contracts, it has no right to political speech. But public sector unions can spend millions of recycled tax dollars campaigning for Democrats, no problem."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 25, 2010 (boomark / email).