League of Conservation Voters President Gene Karpinski quickly warned the ruling "will open the floodgates for oil companies like Exxon to spend vast sums of money to influence the outcome of federal elections." More sanguine, legal scholar Ilya Shapiro of the libertarian Cato Institute insisted that "more spending — more political communication — leads to better informed voters."
Friday, January 22, 2010
MORON OF THE WEEK NOMINEE
From a McClatchy article about the Supreme Court decision on corporations and political speech:
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