#campaignspending — Public Fediverse posts
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done. We must have complete and effective publicity of corporate affairs, so that people may know beyond peradventure whether the corporations obey the law and whether their management entitles them to the confidence of the public. It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced. Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Speech (1910-08-31), “The New Nationalism,” John Brown Memorial Park dedication, Osawatomie, KansasMore info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/2…
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CW: Long thread/7
#10yrsago Face scrub #MicroBeads are choking the Great Lakes https://web.archive.org/web/20131031103227/http://5gyres.org/posts/2013/10/28/5_gyres_publishes_first_scientific_paper_on_plastic_pollution_in_the_great_lakes/
#10yrsago Toronto cops confirm video of Mayor #RobFord smoking crack and making racist and homophobic remarks https://www.cp24.com/news/extended-coverage-police-have-video-of-ford-court-documents-shed-light-on-investigation-1.1521449
#5yrsago The #dialysis industry just set a #CampaignSpending record to fight California limits on pricing https://theintercept.com/2018/10/31/california-proposition-8-dialysis/
#5yrsago London’s new high-rises: speculators’ #LuxuryFlats designed never to be occupied https://citymonitor.ai/economy/more-expensive-property-london-more-likely-it-be-empty-4312
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…the #CitizensUnited ruling… upended nearly 100 years of #CampaignSpending #restrictions.
The #conservative #legal movement seized the moment w/greater success than any other group, & the consequences have shaped American #jurisprudence & #politics in dramatic ways.
From those early discussions among #Leo, #Thomas & #Crow would spring a billion-dollar force that has helped remake the #judiciary & #overturn longstanding legal #precedents on #abortion, #AffirmativeAction & many other issues.