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Jan. 23rd, 2012
from the NYT coverage of the emerging Florida GOP battle:
If anyone really didn't yet get why the Citizens United decision was a bad one, this has got to be the most blatant evidence I've seen to date. Bipartisan legislation established and maintains a limit to contributions for political campaigns. And the Citizens United decisions blew a huge hole in those provisions. We're back to the old, bad days where the more wealth you have, the louder your voice in public speech is allowed to be. All men created equal? Don't be silly; not in America.
But perhaps the biggest question hanging over Mr. Gingrich’s ability to prevail in Florida is whether Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino owner who bankrolled the “super PAC” Winning Our Future that ran negative ads against Mr. Romney in South Carolina, will write another multimillion-dollar check to finance similar attacks in Florida, where airtime is expensive.
If anyone really didn't yet get why the Citizens United decision was a bad one, this has got to be the most blatant evidence I've seen to date. Bipartisan legislation established and maintains a limit to contributions for political campaigns. And the Citizens United decisions blew a huge hole in those provisions. We're back to the old, bad days where the more wealth you have, the louder your voice in public speech is allowed to be. All men created equal? Don't be silly; not in America.