contributions? this is another supreme court case that tests the proposition that the problem with our broken political system is that there just isn t enough money in it. the citizens united case dealt with corporate and union spending, essentially buying advertisements in elections and lifted restrictions on that. this is a case about campaign contributions, that is, giving money to the candidate. the supreme court s conservative majority has expressed doubts about whether the government really does have a free hand to limit those to, say, $2,600 per election cycle. the specific test here is that in federal law, there are a set of aggregate limits. how much you can give to all the candidates in the federal election and how much you can give to the party committees. for example, the rnc. and this would be if the challenger prevails another step in the direction of deregulation of the campaign finance system. the idea that there s just a first amendment free speech right to spend as
you? i just want to say thank you because that was a terrific, terrific memo. that s in the spirit of dr. king asking where do we go from here dr. king would not cry over the awful lyrics and bad schools. he would act. he would stand up. that s the tradition of dr. king. stand up and act against bad schools that are condemning these kids to useless lives because they never have an opportunity to climb that ladder of upward mobility. the civil rights challenge of this generation is ed s occasion and dr. king would never allow anybody to buy his silence, to buy him off. to sell out the kids. that s what s happening right now. i look today at some of the reports on union spending, it s unbelievable. aft. aft and affiliates in new york tens of thousands of dollars going to jesse jackson, al sharpton and naacp. same thing with the national education association nea.
you? i just want to say thank you because that was a terrific, terrific memo. that s in the spirit of dr. king asking where do we go from here dr. king would not cry over the awful lyrics and bad schools. he would act. he would stand up. that s the tradition of dr. king. stand up and act against bad schools that are condemning these kids to useless lives because they never have an opportunity to climb that ladder of upward mobility. the civil rights challenge of this generation is ed s occasion and dr. king would never allow anybody to buy his silence, to buy him off. to sell out the kids. that s what s happening right now. i look today at some of the reports on union spending, it s unbelievable. aft. aft and affiliates in new york tens of thousands of dollars going to jesse jackson, al sharpton and naacp. same thing with the national education association nea.
wall street journal reported today that organized labor groups send a lot more on politics than previous estimates would have you believe. about four times more. according to the journal which chronicle contributions made directly to federal candidates and union spending and supportive candidates for congress and white house but unions spend more on activities like supporting state and local candidates and deploing the union is that labor could be a stronger counterweight. to super pacs that raise millions from wealthy donors to support republican candidates and causes. truth to that. could labor be your savings grace? i m a scriber to the wall street journal. i picked it up in my driveway today. keep in mind, they said more money from labor than they thought. it s not more from money from the billionaires combined. labor can only compete a dollar for every five or ten when you have the koch brothers and adelson and exxon and these big companies that outsource them. labor can
legislation. there s real incentive for the individual billionaires to get their taxes cut, so they invest, really is an investment to them. they get billions in benefits. might labor off set this? i ask the question because the wall street journal reported today that organized labor groups send a lot more on politics than previous estimates would have you believe. about four times more. according to the journal which chronicle contributions made directly to federal candidates and union spending and supportive candidates for congress and white house but unions spend more on activities like supporting state and local candidates and deploing the union is that labor could be a stronger counterweight. to super pacs that raise millions from wealthy donors to