Corporation Decides to Run For Office

[dannno]

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/corporation-says-it-will-run-for-congress/



Corporation Says It Will Run for Congress
By CATHERINE RAMPELL

Following the Supreme Court decision implicitly granting corporations the right to free speech (by determining that political spending is a kind of speech), a corporation has decided to take what it believes to be “democracy’s next step”: It is running for Congress.

With more than a twinge of irony, Murray Hill Incorporated, a liberal public relations firm, recently announced that it planned to run in the Republican primary in Maryland’s 8th Congressional District.

Here is the company’s first “campaign” ad:

YouTube - Murray Hill Incorporated is Running for Congress (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHRKkXtxDRA)


Pretty funny.. although it promotes the fallacy that we are supposed to be a "Democracy" and also promotes the false idea that Republicans are bought off by big business while Democrats are anti-big business.

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http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=229563

[dannno]

Damn I just searched for the economix link

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Hehe. I still stand to my comment in the other thread. I would be all for it if for no other reason than the filibuster possibility. Would every shareholder be entitled to speak their piece from the seat during a filibuster? If so you could endlessly filibuster, and cause NOTHING to get done. That much I like.

[Aratus]

there are two definitions for the word filibuster...

[heavenlyboy34]

Pretty funny.. although it promotes the fallacy that we are supposed to be a "Democracy" and also promotes the false idea that Republicans are bought off by big business while Democrats are anti-big business.
That's not false. The D's are also bought and paid for too.

[AGRP]

Theres a difference between person hood and free speech.