http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4259249&mesg_id=4259249Source: By Raw Story
This week, a group that includes some of the wealthiest Republican CEOs on Wall Street have formed a group to take advantage of new fundraising possibilities for the GOP.
The Supreme Court ruling could potentially allow the group, called the American Action Network, to take unlimited contributions from corporations for use in political campaigns.
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According to the New York Times, the group also includes:
"Republicans who are donors, board members or both include Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi; Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida; Mr. Barbour a former chairman of the Republican Party; Fred Malek, an investor and official in the Nixon and first Bush administrations."
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I, for one, am sick an fucking tired of the same old names turning up to profit while ruining the lives of Americans and ruining America itself.
America. That used to
mean something. It was We the People that gave it that meaning. Now the ideal of
America, land of the free, home of the brave, is now nothing more than Land ot Corporate Personhood and Home of the Cowering Wage Slave.